Even though the direct costs of malpractice diputes amounts of a sum lower than 1 percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-care inflation.
C. amounted to less
D. amounted to lower
og解释是：The sentence does reqiure a noun (less), not an adjective (lower), as the object of the preposition to.
请问less和lower的区别都是依据这个判断么？在意思上如何区别？作者: pianer 时间: 2010-4-7 06:54
Lower是形容词,是长度,高度的概念.
后面是数字,要求用less修饰。如; 修饰时间，数量和距离等的复数名词前用less.如 less than three weeks, less than four hundred dollars, less than fifty meters.
By 1977, the USA was importing no less than 45% of its oil.
