Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 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 .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide .
6 The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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