Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] faster [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The kustar' system , which recovered much faster than heavy industry , had 122 arteli in the city in 1922 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Overall , therefore , hourly productivity probably rose significantly faster than yearly productivity , though measuring hours of work is difficult , especially in the self-employed sector . |
4 | Even if churches planted start very small , they can still grow much faster than larger ones . |
5 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
6 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
7 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
8 | Describing the market as ‘ unquenchable ’ , UK managing director of Precision Visuals , Nick Lewis , says the European market is growing proportionately faster than that in the US . |
9 | " I drive rather faster than these upright commercial gentlemen . |
10 | The electronic publishing market is no exception to this process but does seem to have been affected rather faster than most . |
11 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
12 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
13 | Powered by a 550bhp Perkins engine and fitted with an advanced suspension system , Warrior can move cross-country faster than any other armoured vehicle currently in service with the British Army . |
14 | The figures confirm a trend reported in a study by NASA , the US space agency , in April , which showed that the ozone layer over much of the United States was also being depleted much faster than expected . |
15 | It burnt much faster than expected . |
16 | It burnt much faster than expected . |
17 | They do n't go any faster than that . |
18 | Critics , however , say that the boats go no faster than those they are trying to catch . |
19 | As it was , the proletariat grew considerably faster than total employment . |
20 | Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops . |
21 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
22 | The major problem identified by eugenicists during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries was that the birth rate of the middle class — the eugenically fit — was falling much faster than that of the working class . |
23 | Jo 's talking even faster than usual , shows she 's still feeling a bit down . |
24 | He ran much faster than any man . |
25 | Attendance plummeted as projected crowds dissipated even faster than popular fervour for Expo itself . |
26 | The Director of Naval Intelligence , Rear Admiral John Inglis , was particularly anxious to know more about the Ordzhonikidze 's propeller design since the ship was able to travel much faster than British naval experts had calculated . |
27 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |
28 | If she stayed in England with him , she 'd learn much faster than shovelling horse-shit in New Zealand and being made to get up early in the morning . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Cold-adapted collembola may metabolize slightly faster than temperate species ; in laboratory stocks of C . |