Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] faster [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daddy 's driven after you , but I did n't think he would catch you up because your car goes much faster than his . ’ |
| 2 | As it was , the proletariat grew considerably faster than total employment . |
| 3 | Critics , however , say that the boats go no faster than those they are trying to catch . |
| 4 | The more she thought about it , the more she realised that , as usual , she had let her actions rush ahead faster than her mind could follow . |
| 5 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 6 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 7 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at the Midland Bank , argues that it will be difficult for Britain to grow much faster than its recession-hit EC neighbours . |
| 8 | ‘ If we allow public spending to grow consistently faster than growth in output , then either public borrowing has to be increased or taxation , ’ he said during a debate on the policy review report Economic Equality . |
| 9 | One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species . |
| 10 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 11 | Attendance plummeted as projected crowds dissipated even faster than popular fervour for Expo itself . |
| 12 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 13 | Her heart beating much faster than usual , her face much paler , she turned and high-stepped through the undergrowth towards the path along which the signpost pointed . |
| 14 | But individually they orbit at different speeds depending on their distance from the Sun , the innermost rocky planets orbiting much faster than the outer balls of frozen gaseous vapour , such as Jupiter , Saturn and Uranus . |
| 15 | The reason for the weighting of the stronger winds is to be found in the fact that their effectiveness increases much faster than their speed . |
| 16 | Like all withdrawals , the conversion of Empire into Commonwealth went far faster than was prudent or planned , thanks to American impatience , and to the hostility of the Communist and the Third World states . |