Example sentences of "[adj] and fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , agile and fast as they are , they are sometimes outwitted by sea-lions who lie near the breaking surf off the beaches and come dashing ashore to grab a bird in the ‘ danger zone ’ of the shallow water . |
| 2 | Some may be characterised as predominantly transaction orientated : that is , obtain the brief from the client and work as hard and fast as possible to fill that particular job , that being both the goal and the result . |
| 3 | Throughout , his banter came as thick and fast as softshelled crab , only halting as he paused to take a slurp from his Dixie Beer or to wipe the steam off the camera lens . |
| 4 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 5 | The rumours are growing thick and fast as weeds and de Craon must be their sower . |
| 6 | Honours came thick and fast as the world recognised his achievements . |