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This is a paraphrasing task. In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence which express same meaning as the input using different words.

two of his own strides later , his ears told him that the effort at distraction had been at least a momentary success .
Output:
a few steps away , his ears told him that the attempt at unfettered attention was , at least for the time being , successful .