The folowing from gmapprep and also from og 10. This is already dicussed in this forum.
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 were
D. extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
E. extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
the matter is how to use "greater" and "more"
pls, help.