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In this task, given a sentence in the Malay language, and your task is to convert it into the English language.
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Senator Ellison membalas bahawa kapal tersebut pertama kali dilihat pada 8 Mac "tidak melakukan apa-apa menyalahi undang-undang", dan mengkritik kenyataan Pembangkang yang kapal itu hanyut selama tujuh belas hari, menyatakan bahawa "tidak dinyatakan bahawa ia hanyut berterusan 17 hari."
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Senator Ellison responded that at the vessel's first sighting on March 8 "it was not doing anything illegal", and criticised the Opposition's claim that the ship was drifting for seventeen days, saying that "it was not stated as having drifted for the whole of the 17 days".


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Perlumbaan itu, yang pertama diadakan pada 1829, kini diadakan sepanjang Sungai Thames di London dari Putney untuk Mortlake yang berpanjangan 6779 m (4 batu dan 374 ela).
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The race, first held in 1829, is currently held on a 6,779 m (4 miles and 374 yards) stretch of the River Thames in London from Putney to Mortlake.


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Sudirman Gani, ketua bahagian politik dan perpaduan negara di pentadbiran tempatan, menyatakan bahawa "gempa bumi pertama berukuran 6.9 pada skala Richter dicatatkan pada 2:48 p.m.
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Sudirman Gani, head of the local administration's politics and national unity division, stated that "the first quake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale was recorded at 2:48 p.m.


