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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have no problems at all with this one. "than" is the correct conjunction to use in a statement of comparison:
John is taller than Jane.
Harry earns more money than I do.
Amazon sold three times more Kindles this year than last year.
What is it that you don't like about it?
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I would have been fine with that, but what they said was 'three times as many', not 'three times more'. As I mentioned previously, 'more (or less) than' works, and 'as many as' works, but 'as many than' doesn't.