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I have tried to search both ‘impose a limit of’ and ‘impose the limit of’ on Google and got more results with the indefinite article. However, the definite article is also used in this phrase. We have a strict limit here, so it’s probably better to use the definite article, which is also more common in constructions with ‘of’.
So the question is which article I should use in this sentence and why:
This hosting plan imposes a/the disk usage limit of 40 GB.
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