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.
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Question: was begun by the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft, in eighteen eighty nine, and continued till the summer of nineteen fifteen.

Answer: was begun by the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft, in 1889, and continued till the summer of 1915.

Question: the assassin was then required to hit the target one more time within a space of from four point eight to five point six seconds.

Answer: the assassin was then required to hit the target one more time within a space of from 4.8 to 5.6 seconds.

Question: According to Marguerite Oswald, quote, Lee lived for the time that he would become seventeen years old to join the Marines that whole year, end quote.

Answer:
According to Marguerite Oswald, quote, Lee lived for the time that he would become 17 years old to join the Marines that whole year, end quote.