Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] at [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faintly , above the moaning of the wind , they heard a cracked wheezing , the unskilled sequence of chords of a sea-shanty played at half speed . |
| 2 | Q. — A fire-engine driven at full speed to a fire knocks down and kills somebody . |
| 3 | The whirring sound of a tape rewinding at high speed confirmed her guess . |
| 4 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 5 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 6 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 7 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 8 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 9 | All of these objectives were enshrined in a document written at great speed within six months of the Japanese surrender , and enacted in the following year , 1947 . |