Thread: Do grammatical errors bother you?
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Old 10-26-2010, 03:17 AM   #230
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Originally Posted by KarenH View Post
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.
OK, sorry, I missed that. Yes, you're right: "more ... than ...", but "as many ... as ...".
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