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 are
D. extinction; now with fivefold the numbers they had
E. extinction; now with numbers five times greater than
I picked B. But the answer is A. I thought "more than" is used for countable nouns and "greater than" for uncountable. Help Please!
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 are
D. extinction; now with fivefold the numbers they had
E. extinction; now with numbers five times greater than
I picked B. But the answer is A. I thought "more than" is used for countable nouns and "greater than" for uncountable. Help Please!
