Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 2 | Although Goblins and Squigs have different movement rates , the whole unit keeps together moving at the speed of the Goblins . |
| 3 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 4 | First the polarisation detectors were not far enough apart to rule out the possibility of overlapping single-particle wave functions ; and secondly the pairs of detected photons were not space-like separated — a signal travelling at the speed of light could have passed between the two sets of apparatus . |
| 5 | If the timing is right this will mean that any coordination through ‘ background effects ’ will not have sufficient time to become established even by signals travelling at the speed of light . |
| 6 | Eventually a point is reached where the signals , even travelling at the speed of light , will not have enough time to reach their destinations if the clock speed is further increased . |
| 7 | Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility . |
| 8 | The dream ended one day when I hit a hole whilst flashing at the speed of light down Chanterlands Avenue . |