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Is the following expression clear enough. Is it simple but perfect in meaning?

Why South Korea Surpasses North Korea in Economy with Its Delayed Starting

Year GDP per capita (USD)

1960 NK 253 SK 82 (The former is as many as 3 times of the latter)

1970 NK 400 SK 410 (The latter had surpassed the former)

1980 NK 700 SK 1590 ( Surpassed, about 2 times)

1990 NK 980 SK 6482 (Surpassed, about 6 times)

2000 NK 130 SK 8840 (About 78 times)

2004 NK 86 SK 12341 (About 900 times)

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Is the following expression clear enough. Is it simple but perfect in meaning?

Why South Korea Surpasses North Korea in Economy with Its Delayed Starting

Year GDP per capita (USD)

1960 NK 253 SK 82 (The former is as many as 3 times of the latter)

1970 NK 400 SK 410 (The latter had surpassed the former)

1980 NK 700 SK 1590 ( Surpassed, about 2 times)

1990 NK 980 SK 6482 (Surpassed, about 6 times)

2000 NK 130 SK 8840 (About 78 times)

2004 NK 86 SK 12341 (About 900 times)

It seems perfectly clear to me.

David

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@oristarA,

Congratulations on NOT living in North Korea.

David

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@oristarA,

Quote:

Why South Korea Surpasses North Korea in Economy with Its Delayed Starting

There is no "why" in the statistics.

There is only the when and only 1960, 1970 would be needed to show "When South Korea Surpasses North Korea in Economy with its delayed starting"

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Do you mean to say:

Despite Delayed Start, South Korea Economy Surpasses North Korea's

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@sullyfish6,

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Do you mean to say:

Despite Delayed Start, South Korea Economy Surpasses North Korea's

There is an error there, the way u put it.
If he had said it that way then it woud be:
"Despite Delayed Start, South Korean Economy Surpasses North Korea's"

David

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Yeah. Despite Delayed Start, South Korean Economy Surpasses North Korea's may be clearer.

Thank you both.

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Not sure whether the sentence "The former is as many as 3 times of the latter" is okay.

Should it be " The former is 3 times as many as the latter"?

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@oristarA,

The first is 3 times the last.

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@parados,

So we can reedit a sentence such as "there are 3 times as many girls as boys" to "there, the girls are 3 times the boys"?

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

So we can reedit a sentence such as "there are 3 times as many girls as boys" to "there, the girls are 3 times the boys"?

Don't do it. The first is perfectly clear. The second is perfectly confusing, especially with a comma after 'there'.

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@oristarA,

I'd rather move to North Korea than edit this however,

present the information in table format without the commentary in brackets with a heading:

ECONOMIC COMPARISON

GDP per capita USD

NORTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA

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I disagree. Its fine.

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@oristarA,

"3 times" works best for numbers. You aren't comparing boys to girls. You are comparing dollars to dollars.

"One dollar amount is 3 times (larger) the other dollar amount" vs "One dollar amount is 3 times as many as the other dollar amount". "As many" means you are counting the numbers of each item. Since a dollar amount is already a number there is no need to count the number of numbers.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Not sure whether the sentence "The former is as many as 3 times of the latter" is okay.

Should it be " The former is 3 times as many as the latter"?

"The former is 3 times as many as the latter" is better.

"of" is an error.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Well you'd be wrong Dave the heading is ungrammatical and the comments in brackets are fatuous.

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