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In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
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Like many composers in this period , he started his musical career as a chorister , although the exact location of his education is unknown : Mons , a town near Saint-Ghislain that had at least two churches with competent music schools , has been suggested .
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Like many composers in this period , he started to learn about music by singing in a church choir , quite possibly in Saint-Ghislain and then in Mons .


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Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time , in which case the number of remaining laps is calculated as the race progresses .
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Race length can be either a time or a number of laps .


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The Technische Universita ̈ t Darmstadt ( unofficially Technical University of Darmstadt or Darmstadt University of Technology ) , commonly referred to as TU Darmstadt , is a research university in the city of Darmstadt , Germany .
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The Darmstadt University of Technology ( ; TUD ) is a university in Darmstadt , in Germany .