Example sentences of "[adv] fast as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not so fast as I 'd like , ’ she says . |
| 2 | Even worse , the European empires at least left behind them working administrative structures and moderately healthy economies , which meant that most of the ex-colonial countries have managed to maintain stable states and thriving economies — although , of course , not thriving as fast as ours in the west — but the Soviet empire is leaving no administration at all , only economic catastrophe . |
| 3 | His wages have increased , but not as fast as everyone else 's . |
| 4 | ‘ That messenger can pour back the ale near as fast as yourself , Lachlan , ’ she laughed . |
| 5 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 6 | Nobody gets under them machines as fast as me . ’ |
| 7 | Nine minutes it 's taken him this evening , no more — almost as fast as me . |
| 8 | Subjectively it feels every bit as fast as its maker claims , but what really impresses is the torque . |
| 9 | But undulating side-wings are not such powerful propellants as a thrashing tail , so the manta can not swim as fast as its shark cousins or rival them as hunters . |
| 10 | ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’ |
| 11 | One stayed behind and the other hurried as fast as her advancing years would permit , to fetch a neighbour from a nearby cottage . |
| 12 | By the time the stars had faded , Maldita 's heart had rallied , beating almost as fast as her pounding little hooves had on the pampas . |
| 13 | When all was silent , except for the distant buzz of conversation from the tea , she crept out and almost ran down the back passage , as fast as her high-heeled shoes would permit . |
| 14 | Then as fast as her legs would carry her , she shambled down the path towards the gate . |
| 15 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 16 | At the Queen Street entrance she caught a glimpse of a red-clad figure running as fast as her legs would carry her to keep up with the woman who was taking her away . |
| 17 | We want to grow as fast as we can . ’ |
| 18 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 19 | We both got out of the jeep as fast as we could and sprinted in the direction of the slit trenches . |
| 20 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
| 21 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 22 | To continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can . |
| 23 | ’ And as soon as she disappears , we beat it as fast as we can . |
| 24 | It 's the highway and as fast as we can go . ’ |
| 25 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 26 | In 1992 , the Conservative manifesto makes not even the most platitudinous mention of such a target : its four stated economic aims are ‘ to achieve price stability ; to keep firm control over public spending ; to continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can ; [ and ] to make sure that market mechanisms and incentives are allowed to do their job . ’ |
| 27 | There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could . |
| 28 | Accelerating as fast as we can |
| 29 | As fast as we could . ’ |
| 30 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |