Example sentences of "[adv] quickly than [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 2 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 3 | It is the mainly office-trained technicians who acquire a thorough grasp of construction , office procedures and job running far more quickly than their architect counterparts . |
| 4 | We listen more quickly than we speak , and when we can anticipate what is coming next then we switch off . |
| 5 | We can go back more quickly than we came . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have to be understood , however , that such a procedure would place constraints on litigants , ’ a paper from the working party warns , ‘ by obliging them to proceed more quickly than they might wish and forego the examination of some or all of the issues in a case by oral evidence . ’ |
| 7 | THE people of Warrington are paying the council tax more quickly than they paid the community charge . |
| 8 | The pit would be profitable and they would be able to repay their loans more quickly than they envisaged . ’ |
| 9 | There 's another public site at Hinksey Hill , which is very new , where they 've settled well , and there is about to be a private site out at Frilford , and that site will allow the Vale to be designated and that means that people who are encamped illegally in laybys and bridleways and grass verges can be moved on much more quickly than they can at the moment erm and if we 're not careful they 'll all be moving into West Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | more quickly than your onions will . |
| 11 | William Hazlitt 's visit to Somerset , so eagerly anticipated since January , began in fine summer weather towards the end of May.24 Having made the journey from Shropshire more quickly than he expected , he lingered nervously at Bridgwater for two days . |
| 12 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 13 | Relief came more quickly than my troubled heart expected , for it had been decided that the matron of the SPG hospital at Mandalay could be spared for rural medical work . |
| 14 | He recovered far more quickly than she would have thought possible for such a big man , but the drag on her arm nearly pulled it out of its socket . |
| 15 | Given the critical impact of assumption on oil prices and quantities , the CEGB will clearly need to explain why , with oil prices rising so rapidly , it can not reduce its oil consumption more quickly than it currently expects . |
| 16 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 17 | Actually the day Passed more quickly than I had expected . |
| 18 | Some people get the hang of these things more quickly than I do . |
| 19 | Suppose you 've scheduled your meetings till 12.30 but you get through the morning 's business more quickly than you expected . |
| 20 | But the fact that a child can slide down a mountain more quickly than you can does not mean he can catch lifts , follow pistes , order lunch , or even find the Herren plonked with Austrian efficiency at the summit of each skiable peak . |
| 21 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 22 | Express trains come rushing down on you far more quickly than you imagine and more than one hundred people are killed every year in the United Kingdom doing this . |
| 23 | One unusual aspect of the J/44 is the need to depower the main more quickly than you might be accustomed to on other boats . |