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@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ USA Spending
 
 Public Data from USASpending.gov which contains financial information for many US government agencies going back to 2001.
 
-Note that this repo uses git-lfs and containers a largish (~200GB) postgres database.  Please refer to the included documentation for reference.
+Note that this repo uses git-lfs and contains a largish (~200GB) postgres database.  Please refer to the included documentation for reference.