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School-Cotton on Aug 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math O...

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

Myrmornis on Aug 4, 2016 [–]

"Over 5000 ... have bought" is obviously the best formulation to a native English speaker who can write / copy edit well.

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