Question: a couple of years earlier karl 11th had become of age. so far he had only cared a little about state matters, but now, because of the imminent danger, he became a grown up, ignored the council totally and undertook the governing himself.
Answer: --> A couple of years earlier Karl 11th had become of age. So far he had only cared a little about state matters, but now, because of the imminent danger, he became a grown up, ignored the Council totally and undertook the governing himself.

Question: in recent decades the ice sheet has begun to shrink, meaning that the ice sheet loses more mass in the form of melt water or icebergs than it receives from precipitation.
Answer: --> In recent decades the ice sheet has begun to shrink, meaning that the ice sheet loses more mass in the form of melt water or icebergs than it receives from precipitation.

Question: 2 and saul abode at the extreme end of gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which [was] in migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men.
Answer:
--> 2 And Saul abode at the extreme end of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which [was] in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men.