According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
If you want to relate the quantities by multiplication, use times and as... as... together. Right: The man is FIVE TIMES AS OLD AS his grandson. Wrong: The man is FIVE TIMES OLDER THAN his grandson. The first sentence means that the man's age = 5 x his grandson's age. In the second example, the author is technically saying that the man is six times as old as his grandson. This meaning is unlikely; the author probably meant "five times as old." In one GMAT problem (#72 in the Verbal Supplement), the correct answer says that cer- tain numbers are "5 times greater than ... " other numbers. In general, however, this usage In general, however, this usage should be avoided
我想请问的是 到底 倍数词 twice ,three times 后面可不可以加比较级啊。 好像在语法笔记和网上都能搜出后面加比较级的句子。 求验证,求指导!!!
212. (GWD-10-Q1) According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice (C) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice