这是Garner's Modern English Usage一书中的一句。原句是:My thought was that assigning these rankings to various usages is much more helpful than what one finds in existing usage guides.
这里用what是正常的。但是有例外(句7):
1. It is a far more spacious and genteel environment than one finds on a commuter train.(The New York Times)
2. There are more words to read than previously, but not many, and certainly far fewer than one finds on Mail Online.(The Guardian)
3."Manga covers an enormous range of topics, genres and styles of story, far more diverse than one finds in western comics, or on the animated side western television," said Palmer.(The Guardian)
4. There was more sincerity in this one hour than one finds in entire months of playing by Mr. Tetzlaff's more famous colleagues.(The New York Times)
5. "I can't afford that," he concluded.This was a different and more serious side of the Republicans than one finds at tax-protesting "tea parties", on talk radio, or going rogue on a book tour.(The Economist)
1-5句也好理解。只是第3句far more diverse是修饰前面的an enormous range of topics, genres and styles of story,因为太长了,如果连在一起确实别扭。
6. The Tans produced menus far more varied than one finds in the typical U.S. fast-food joint;including such things as spaghetti and local noodle dishes.(Forbes)
6句是因为向上渗透至menus far more varied,仍然正常。
7. Sergei Eisenstein's camera, in close-up, trails his actors "like a nose with cocaine" (an image so weird, and so apt, it's fair to say that only Thomson could conceive it), while in modern porn, "the shooting style and its relevance to the action is invariably more fluent and interesting than one finds in today's average feature film".(The New York Times - Books)
7句是个例外,再一次说明这种unexpected情况确实存在,从统计的角度看占比很少。