Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a sentence in the Romanian language. Your job is to translate the Romanian sentence into the English language.

În 1999, cu doi ani înainte de moartea sa, domnul Nielsen i-a spus unui intervievator că el crede că roca va trăi mai mult ca el.
In 1999, two years before his death, Mr. Nielsen told an interviewer that he thought the rock face would outlive him by many years.