Sentence 1: um-hum i bet that would be rather interesting uh that's uh self-improvement that's that's always well that's that's kind of a hobby but it is self-improvement uh from the standpoint of probably relaxing um

Sentence 2: I can see how self-improvement would be considered a hobby.
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Answer: yes

Sentence 1: He heard laughter behind him as he walked.

Sentence 2: A group of men laughed at him.
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: Because the FGD estimate based on availability of resources is much less than the amount of FGD capacity that would be cost effective to build, EPA ran model sensitivities constraining the amount of scrubber capacity that could be installed by 2005 at 10,000 MWe.

Sentence 2: Increasing the availability would help.
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Answer:
it is not possible to tell