When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.
there are less than one-quarter that many
there are fewer than one-quarter as many
there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount
the number is less than one-quarter the amount
it is less than one-quarter of that amount
1.措辞,不能用Less,因为比较的是数字,是可数的,ADE错
2.idiom: ono-quater as many表示同样的数量。
同理还有twice as many.
3.一致,there are和Less,that the amount一看就不一致。AC错
4.the amount是指代不可数的,C就不一致,D的the number和the amount不能对比,CD错
fewer可数,less不可数,amount代不可数,number代可数
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