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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ LED wearables to sophisticated smart watches and IoT wireless gateways.
 
 The Zephyr kernel supports multiple architectures, including ARM (Cortex-A,
 Cortex-R, Cortex-M), Intel x86, ARC, Nios II, Tensilica Xtensa, and RISC-V,
-SPARC, MIPS, and a large number of `supported boards`_.
+SPARC, MIPS, and large numbers of `supported boards`_.
 
 .. below included in doc/introduction/introduction.rst