Numbers in comparisons

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Numbers in comparisons

by DBushkalov » Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:11 pm
Hi fellows,



I looked into the MGMAT Strategy guide for sentence correction, and it showed the following alternatives:

1) i am twice as old as he is

2) the price is 10 $, twice the price last year

3) the costs are 10 $, twice the costs 12 years ago.

Two questions arise from here:

1) could someone please tell me when do we use TWICE AS MANY/ TWICE AS MUCH

2) is it possible to replace:

the costs are 10 $, twice the costs 12 years ago.

with

the costs are 10$, three times as high as last the costs year.
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by aditya8062 » Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:07 pm
just few hours back i had asked a very similar question at this link :https://www.beatthegmat.com/x-times-more ... 95464.html

as for an example : last year i read 40 books ,twice as many as i read in preceding year

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