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The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970’s. (A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than (B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than (C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were (D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had (E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
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IMO A is the answer.
C,D has S-V agreement issue.
E is run on
Numbers are compared to numbers. greater than is the correct usage.
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IMO B. "Their" and "they" are wrong in C and D. E is wrong because its unclear. Between A and B: greater than vs more than. I think that greater is ok only with numbers and more is ok with groups of objects.
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Guys, I am not sure I like the expression "five times greater than when...". But the only answer choice that corrects this, also introduces an agreement error. 
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spriya wrote: The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970’s.
(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than Between A and B. A is good when comparing numbers vs numbers. we say number is greater (countable - Number) we say cost is more. ( uncountable - cost )
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Not quite true. I have ten dollars more than you. ten dollars is countable. I've searched all over the place, and I still can't find a straight answer for greater than vs more than. I wonder if I ask the makers of the test, they can give me a straight answer 
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bigfernhead wrote: Not quite true. I have ten dollars more than you. ten dollars is countable. I've searched all over the place, and I still can't find a straight answer for greater than vs more than. I wonder if I ask the makers of the test, they can give me a straight answer I believe the above sentence will be correct if we put it this way : I have ten dollars more than you do. we are comparing having ten dollars ,or possising ten dollars=> uncountable ten dollars is greater than 5 dollars here countable(ten dollars) hence greater used checkout this link good explanation for this issue: http://gmatsentencecorrection.blogspot. ... %E2%80%99s. found this in the net thanks all for the explanations OA is A
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