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The task is to read a passage and convert numbers in their text forms into digit forms. The text numbers can be used to represent Quantity, Dates and Time, Addresses or Positions.
question:
In England about this time, an attempt was made (notably by Caslon, who started business in London as a type founder in seventeen twenty)
answer:
In England about this time, an attempt was made (notably by Caslon, who started business in London as a type founder in 1720)

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On Sunday morning, November twenty four, Oswald denied that he knew A. J. Hidell.
answer:
On Sunday morning, November 24, Oswald denied that he knew A. J. Hidell.

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was introduced as early as seventeen ninety by Mr. Blackburn
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was introduced as early as 1790 by Mr. Blackburn