Input (grade 13): Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550, there were only some 1,550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces.
Output (grade 9): But except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, the Spanish had control over Yucatán itself already by 1546.