A recent article in the Daily Telegraph on the subject of
online banking payments included the following sentence:
For this to be true, an individual would have to make more
than 1,643,835 transactions per day; equivalent to more than 68,493 per hour,
1,141 per minute or 19 per second.
Canny Linguist
thinks this is highly improbable.
In the old days, newspapers would employ competent
sub-editors to correct such nonsense before publication.