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So ... that?

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Liveinjapan:

The situation is so critical that it would occur once every hundred years.

Is my sentence correct?

Thanks.

Osaka, Japan

Senior Member 2,805

Please feel free to correct any words I write. LiJ

CalifJim:

Not bad, but I'd prefer

... is so critical that it occurs only once in a hundred years.

(The would sticks out as strange in the context of a present tense -- is.)

CJ

California

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