Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 2 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can a normal sword . |
| 3 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield their mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 4 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course , if prices generally do rise , the value of money falls with all sorts of unpleasant consequences for the classes who can not raise their money incomes as fast as others , and , in the case of Britain particularly , for the national balance of payments . |
| 7 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |
| 8 | I walked across the moors as fast as I could , and arrived breathless at Wuthering Heights . |
| 9 | Nobody gets under them machines as fast as me . ’ |
| 10 | Guns come out from under the suede coats as fast as at the OK Corral . |
| 11 | Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper . |
| 12 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 13 | These techniques allow the anisotropic parameters to be estimated more reliably and computed a hundred times as fast as previously . |
| 14 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 15 | Pentium is five times as fast as the Intel 486 chip found in the swiftest of today 's desktop PCs . |
| 16 | The detector zoned system , however , is about four times as fast as the 29th edition system in detection , and requires only about one-fifth of the water for fire control . |
| 17 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 18 | Its commerce was increasing perhaps four times as fast as the rest of the country between 1716 and 1800 . |
| 19 | To continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The guitar 's dimensions do limit its penetrating power , but what you get instead is a sparkly , ultra-fast response that clearly articulates fingerpicked notes as fast as you can spit them out . |
| 22 | Be patient ; staff are dealing with the calls as fast as they can . |
| 23 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |
| 24 | I fell to the ground in great pain , and the man and the girl ran into the woods as fast as they could , and left me . |
| 25 | Wave after wave of brilliantly coloured cloth issued from the basket , threatening to engulf her , but she struggled manfully against it , her fingers as fast as light . |
| 26 | Then they ran down the stairs as fast as they could . |
| 27 | She wanted to be out of his sight very quickly and she leaned on Marguerite willingly to get up the stairs as fast as possible . |
| 28 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 29 | Outside on the roof the drummers began to speed up , thrashing the great cavernous half-globes as fast as their hands could rise and fall . |
| 30 | Linked together , they can crunch numbers as fast as any mainframe , but at a fraction of the cost . |