Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] faster [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I could go much faster than they could . |
| 4 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cold-adapted collembola may metabolize slightly faster than temperate species ; in laboratory stocks of C . |
| 10 | Trained keyboard users can type much faster than humans write by hand , but speech is much faster than either of these for the majority of people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once a bat has detected a moth it has the advantage , because bats can fly much faster than moths . |