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Analysts predicts that, this year, the company's revenue will grow 12 percent, a number much greater that it was in any of the previous five years.

A) a number much greater that it was
B) which is much more than it was
C) much more than it did
D) much more than they had
E) much more than it was

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Analysts predicts that, this year, the company's revenue will grow 12 percent, a number much greater that it was in any of the previous five years.

A) a number much greater that it was
B) which is much more than it was
C) much more than it did
D) much more than they had
E) much more than it was
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A) a number much greater that it was-sentence has given a percentage, so usage of "a number" is wrong.

B) which is much more than it was-redundant
C) much more than it did- Correct
D) much more than they had-"they"... wrong
E) much more than it was-"was"... here if we see the original sentence, it is mentioned that the increase is compared to that of the previous years.
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GMATNinja can you please tell me why is option 'B' wrong ?
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Analysts predicts that, this year, the company's revenue will grow 12 percent, a number much greater that it was in any of the previous five years.

A) a number much greater that it was
B) which is much more than it was
C) much more than it did
D) much more than they had
E) much more than it was

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IMO it must be C

A)what does it refer too?
Company's revenue or the number?
If we substitute company's revenue in place of it, it doesn't make any sense. a number can't be more than company's revenue in any of the previous five years.
Even if we substitute number, it still doesn't makes sense.

B) Which is referring to 12% and 12% can't be more than company's revenue.

C) much more than it did - this is correct. There is no ambiguity and it refers to company's revenue. There is an elliptical construction here.
much more than it did(grow) in any of the previous five years.
Did + grow = grew, since did is in past tense and that is what we need, a past verb, this option looks correct.
if the antecedent verb is in perfect tense such as revenue has grown, then this option would have been wrong.

D) They can refer to the only mentioned plural noun i.e., analysts. This is wrong too

E) much more than it was in any of the previous five years. What does it was refer to?
The only phrase that comes to me is to use an +ing verb (participle).

it was growing

But there is no need to use a past participle here. we are not showing action happening at the same time of another action.

I hope it helps and please let me know if my analysis is wrong
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Somewhere I read, uncountable quantity words such as volume, probability etc take 'greater' instead of 'more' while comparing. Here revenue is such a word. And shouldn't it be much greater than it did?

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Can you explain me the difference in the options c and e.
In option C, it did
From your webinar i tried to take the verb directly for did
much more than company's revenues will grow in any of the past five years
do we have to change the verb from based on the tense of do, does ,did?
In option E, it was
Company's revenues will grow 12 percent much more than company's revenue was in any past five years.
company's revenues will grow 12 percent are compared to company's revenues of any past few years
here company revenues are compared?
Im unable to find the comparison trigger, Please help me with this
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