The phrase 'contain mistakes' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is not correct or accurate. For example, "This essay contains several mistakes that need to be corrected."
And let's not forget the fact that criminal background checks frequently contain mistakes.
"More than 20 percent of Einstein's original papers contain mistakes of some sort," Livio writes.
Dr. Stricker said that the unpublished article did indeed contain mistakes, but that they were not his.
Both are said to be aged 38, which jars with Alvarenga's description of his companion as a teenager, although Mexican official reports commonly contain mistakes.
Even records as personal and important as a marriage certificate or tombstone were known to contain mistakes as basic as misspelled names and incorrect birthdates.
Ironically, because officers conducted the operation covertly, the reports contain mistakes that could have been easily corrected had the officers talked to store owners or imams.
A lie, he said, always contains "mistakes".
Moreover, whole-genome sequencing typically contains mistakes, so key mutations might be missed.
Yes, every text contains mistakes and generally those incidental snafus don't matter.
If a line of type contained mistakes, a composing room worker would strike those first 12 keys to indicate that the line should be discarded.
Rising retraction rates, which tend to be higher in high-impact journals, show that even the peer-reviewed literature contains mistakes, and academic progress is based upon improving on the flaws in somebody else's work.
