1. For six months , Hopkins toured England , the United States and Japan with the band .
2. Hopkins toured with the band for six months through Japan , the United States , and England .

yes

1. The affine scaling direction can be used to define a heuristic to adaptively choose the centering parameter as
2. The affine scaling direction can be used to choose a heuristic to adaptive the centering parameter as :

no

1. He was born April 23 , 1979 in Guayaquil -- Ecuador , under the sign of Taurus , the last of five children .
2. He was born on 23 April 1979 in Ecuador -- Guayaquil , under the sign of the Taurus , the last of five children .
no