Example sentences of "[adv] fast as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ As fast as we are reducing the population arriving from the marshland and canal they are expanding . ’ |
| 32 | We change as fast as we possibly can , |
| 33 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 34 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 35 | The economists agree that reforms should happen as fast as they are technically possible , whether ordinary citizens want it that way or not . |
| 36 | But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like . |
| 37 | They can go as fast as they want and there will be no restrictions . |
| 38 | When news of the Bookman 's capture had spread , everyone dropped what they were doing and rushed to the library as fast as they could . |
| 39 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 40 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 41 | Slowly , as fast as they could , the Macleans shoved off for home . |
| 42 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 43 | Two of them disappeared without trace as fast as they could . |
| 44 | By the 1970s record manufacturers seemed to be forming new logos ( or trade-names ) as fast as they could , and the entry of hundreds of small independent companies added to the confusion . |
| 45 | ‘ You got to keep going when you find 'em , ’ he continued , ‘ the little buggers disappear as fast as they come . ’ |
| 46 | And if Marian and the outlaws had already met there was no reason why she should not use the highway and move as fast as they . |
| 47 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 48 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 49 | For all the rhetoric of a ‘ classless ’ society , of enabling people ‘ to rise as far and as fast as they can ’ , to quote John Major 's first speech to the new parliament , the reality remains of a nation in which inherited wealth and privilege , and institutionalised power or authority , matter far more than what individuals make of themselves . |
| 50 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
| 51 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 52 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |
| 53 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 54 | Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper . |
| 55 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 56 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 57 | If they are too far away to charge the Snotlings move towards the nearest enemy as fast as they are able . |
| 58 | Then they ran down the stairs as fast as they could . |
| 59 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 60 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |