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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def sort_annotations(annotations: List[Tuple[int, int, str]] ) -> List[Tuple[int, int, str]]: """ Sorts the annotations by their start_time. """

    return sorted(annotations, key=lambda x: x[0])