Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] faster [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Critics , however , say that the boats go no faster than those they are trying to catch .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Attendance plummeted as projected crowds dissipated even faster than popular fervour for Expo itself .
6 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 .
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