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 \pnum
 A program may end the lifetime of any object by reusing the storage
 which the object occupies or by explicitly calling the destructor for an
-object of a class type with a non-trivial destructor. For an object of a
-class type with a non-trivial destructor, the program is not required to
+object of a class type. For an object of a class type with a
+non-trivial destructor, the program is not required to
 call the destructor explicitly before the storage which the object
 occupies is reused or released; however, if there is no explicit call to
 the destructor or if a \grammarterm{delete-expression}\iref{expr.delete}