Example sentences of "[adv] fast [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most consistent fall in UAO was seen after breakfast , and suggested that a light meal after a relatively long fast provided the ideal stimulus for observing changes in UAO that reflect gastric acid output . |
| 2 | A house mouse can run at 13 km/h , larger species somewhat faster until the optimum size for -running is reached at about 120 kg . |
| 3 | The helmsman and the engineer controlled her easily and she reacted without hesitation to all commands , naturally much faster than a sailing vessel . |
| 4 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 5 | In the endless quest for short-term profits , fishing companies use drift-nets in the full knowledge that dolphins , seals , turtles , and sea birds will be killed , often much faster than the target fish species . |
| 6 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 7 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 8 | As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones . |
| 9 | But this new alloy is being oxidised — and flaking off — much faster than the old alloy ; the chemistry of the mixtures is still poorly understood . |
| 10 | Expert systems sales are growing much faster than the software business as a whole . |
| 11 | The market is growing at over 30% per year — much faster than the rest of the software business , or information technology as a whole . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The culprit is the G string slot , which has been cut away at too sharp an angle , leaving the string supported on a tiny knife-edge ; this slot will wear much faster than the others , which will eventually call for a premature nut replacement , or at least some fancy manoeuvring with superglue and baking soda . |
| 14 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 15 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 16 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 17 | In conclusion , I wish to emphasize that all the charge rearrangements discussed in this section occur very fast , much faster than the period of oscillation of the magnetic field . |
| 18 | It is even more important now as a recent environmental report said Britain 's woods are disappearing much faster than the Amazon rain forests . |
| 19 | This is a state of the art system , much faster than the old manual methods and produces far more concise and accurate reports . |
| 20 | If companies reacted to early signs of slowdown with large cuts in production and investment , their demand for credit will have fallen sharply , perhaps faster than the supply of credit . |
| 21 | The water from the lower source is emitted sufficiently faster than the main flow that it forms a turbulent jet . |
| 22 | They were in , piled one on top of another , and away fast before the significance of the situation fully sank in . |
| 23 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 24 | However , with the main continental European economies unlikely to grow any faster than the UK over the next year or so , exports are not going to be a powerful recovery force for the economy or corporate earnings through 1993 . |
| 25 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 26 | And the plane 's going slightly faster than the Hercules or Andover . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It can develop as fast as a Charolais if fed appropriately and under ideal circumstances it can achieve similar weights within the same time span , especially if breeders are selective in their choice of stock . |
| 29 | One look at the screenshots will tell you this is n't a dodgy Speccy port , updating about as fast as a reasonably athletic snail . |
| 30 | CONCORDE : It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon . |