English Language & Usage Asked on November 28, 2021
While I was studying a textbook, I came across a sentence like this: ”The affinity of carbon monoxide for haemoglobin is more than 200 times that of oxygen.”
Am I correct in assuming that there should be another ”than” in the sentence and the whole sentence should be like: ”The affinity of carbon monoxide for haemoglobin is more than 200 times than that of oxygen.” ?
Thanks.
You are not correct; we do not use 'than' when using only 'times' to express a ratio, in your case 200 to one. If you used an adjective of comparison, e.g. more, bigger, larger, etc, you would write 'than'.
The price of gold per kilogramme is $60,000. The price of lead per kilogramme is $2.
The price of gold per kilogramme is 30,000 times that of lead.
The price of gold per kilogramme is 30,000 times bigger than that of lead.
Answered by Michael Harvey on November 28, 2021
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