Doubt in Idiom "AS"

[thapliyalabhi]

I was going through the idiom list,and found these 2 sentences as examples for AS:

We have THREE TIMES AS MANY pears AS you.
We have AT LEAST AS MANY apples AS you.

These sentences have been termed as correct. But, I feel in both the sentences number of apples/pears is being compared with "you" i.e. a person.
Are these sentences correct.
Shouldn't they end with "you have".

Please clarify.

[RonPurewal]

I was going through the idiom list,and found these 2 sentences as examples for AS:

We have THREE TIMES AS MANY pears AS you.
We have AT LEAST AS MANY apples AS you.

These sentences have been termed as correct. But, I feel in both the sentences number of apples/pears is being compared with "you" i.e. a person.
Are these sentences correct.
Shouldn't they end with "you have".

Please clarify.

no, those are fine. (see OG verbal supplement #38 for a similar construction in an official problem.)

you only need the extra verb if (a) there's a change in tense/timeframe or (b) the sentence would be ambiguous without it.
neither of these conditions holds here, so you're fine without the extra verb.

(also -- "have" is a normal verb here, not a helping verb. so, even if you were going to add the extra verb, you would add "do", not "have".)