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“More” vs. “more than” [closed]
What is the difference between the following statements?
John uses 15 000 matchsticks to make model boat A. He uses 2300 more to make model boat B.
John uses 15 000 matchsticks ...
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Over or under half price
If something normally cost £300 and someone is selling exactly the same item for £100, is this:
over half price
under half price
Does it depend on context or is either correct?
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Is “Four times more” grammatically correct? And, if so, what precisely does it mean?
I have 10 beans. Jim has four times more.
Is this a valid sentence? And, if so, does it mean Jim has 40 or 50 beans?
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How to use “tens of” and “hundreds of”?
If I'm not mistaken, tens of means 10 to 99 and hundreds of means 100 to 999. Is this correct? I found in some dictionaries that tens of is actually not correct.
I also found that hundreds of could ...
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What does the term “86'd” relate to?
What does it mean when someone or something is referred to as being "86'd"?
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How much exactly is increased when it is “increased by 1.1”?
I saw it in a text book, and a similar problem that also appeared in the book is "3 times faster", which is already asked. Simply speaking, the book says:
Unfortunately, it increases the CPI by ...
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What method of counting puts Twelfth Night on January 6th?
I know English has (or at least had) some strange usages of eve and night, but I still can’t figure out how December 25th and 12 can be combined to come up with January 6th.
(This stems from my ...
