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[Crisi]

Dear teachers,

How would you improve the following sentence?

But we need to be careful about how long the children are allowed to use the computer.

Thank you in advance.

[Mister Micawber]

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It seems fine to me, Crisi-- unless you want to change the structure completely. For instance, you could write:

We need to limit the children's computer time.
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