Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] quickly than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 2 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 3 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 4 | Resources : The Ninth Five-Year Plan ( 1971–75 ) stipulated that light industry would grow more quickly than heavy industry ; nonetheless , the opposite took place . |
| 5 | When Japanese demand picks up again , imports will grow more quickly than in past recoveries . |
| 6 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 7 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 8 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 9 | All I did was arrive more quickly than going round to your door . ’ |
| 10 | The results of production should increase more quickly than expenditure upon it . |