Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 31 | I laughed and set spurs to my horse and thundered through the convent gates as fast as a deer . |
| 32 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ Instruct the freighters to make revolutions immediately and head for the open seas as fast as possible , ’ he said . |
| 35 | So she signed ‘ Charlotte Rossignol ’ , well aware that he was reading the letters as fast as she formed them . |
| 36 | The boxes were stacked on desks and tables and covered the floors as fast as the shelves were emptied . |