According to the National Automatic Merchandising Association, many machines have already been converted to accept the coin.

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This, despite the fact that over half of the cerrado has already been converted far more than the Amazon rainforest.

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The Grade II listed Time Office, which incorporates an Art Deco clock tower, has already been converted into office space.

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One of the most overused terms in sports is "emotional victory, " and the emotion is almost always owed to something that's happened before the game, that has already been converted from sadness into inspiration.

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Some bunkers on former synagogue sites already have been converted.

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Less than 18 months after launching, there are already over 7, 000 websites that have been converted for access by i-mode.

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When he wrote the Tract the classical gold standard already had been fundamentally gutted by the Genoa Accord of 1922 and, yes indeed, thereby converted into a barbarous relic.

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But Warner was burned earlier this year when it converted the film Clash of the Titans into 3-D after it had already been shot in 2-D.

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