Of the one hundred thousand tons of beef imported last year

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majid72

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Hello.

Would you please check the sentence below?

"Of the one hundred thousand tons of beef imported last year, sixty thousand tons were imported by the private sector in the first eight months."
 
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It's okay, but consider omitting the second "thousand."
 

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I think Teechar may have meant the repetition of tons, rather than thousand.
 

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Screen-blindness hits us all, besides fat-finger problems. :)
 
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