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 By default, the benchmark harness calls the `run` method 10 times
 repeatedly until 2 seconds have elapsed. This means that
-the reported run time is not for a single call to `run` but an average across
-10.
+the reported run time is not for a single call to `run` but the average
+time taken invoking `run` 10 times.
 
 ## Comparing Results ##