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When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950â€™s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

A. there are less than one-quarter that many

B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many

C. there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount

D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount

E. it is less than one-quarter of that amount

I think the answer should be B but some people think it should be C..

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01 Oct 2006, 03:45

Although amount is natural to be associated with 4000...I will go with C.
B looks unidiomatic. seems it misses 'as' at the end.

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01 Oct 2006, 04:54

I would go with B. 4000 is the number of drive-in (theatres). It can't be amount.
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01 Oct 2006, 07:31

ak_idc wrote:

I would go with B. 4000 is the number of drive-in (theatres). It can't be amount.

as many what??? B is an incomplete sentence.

Fewer than ... (countable noun) that amount...

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ak_idc wrote:

I would go with B. 4000 is the number of drive-in (theatres). It can't be amount.

as many what??? B is an incomplete sentence.

Fewer than ... (countable noun) that amount...

Agreed, it should be as many as X.

I would have liked D the number is less than quarter of that amount. But the choice D is missing "of" so it looks awkward

Hence C is the best one

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