Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] faster [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water from the lower source is emitted sufficiently faster than the main flow that it forms a turbulent jet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And , just like a spent rocket , the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise . |
| 4 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 5 | Expert systems sales are growing much faster than the software business as a whole . |
| 6 | However , with the main continental European economies unlikely to grow any faster than the UK over the next year or so , exports are not going to be a powerful recovery force for the economy or corporate earnings through 1993 . |
| 7 | And the plane 's going slightly faster than the Hercules or Andover . |
| 8 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 9 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 10 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 11 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 12 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 13 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 14 | As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load . |
| 15 | The culprit is the G string slot , which has been cut away at too sharp an angle , leaving the string supported on a tiny knife-edge ; this slot will wear much faster than the others , which will eventually call for a premature nut replacement , or at least some fancy manoeuvring with superglue and baking soda . |
| 16 | It is even more important now as a recent environmental report said Britain 's woods are disappearing much faster than the Amazon rain forests . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It says that without building on existing community services , residential care will expand even faster than the £1 billion growth in the 1980s , as measured by social security costs . |