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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by umanwizard on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:18AM (#12223535)
You have got to be kidding me. I'm a native English speaker and the sentence sounds totally fine the way he wrote it. Plenty of native speakers could have produced it and I'm not even totally convinced (though it might be true I guess) that the other two are statistically more common
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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by Myrmornis on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:57AM (#12224103)
"Over 5000 ... have bought" is obviously the best formulation to a native English speaker who can write / copy edit well.
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