Example sentences of "at the [det] speed " in BNC.

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1 I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home .
2 Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board .
3 Society has changed since the days of the cart and horse , or since men with red flags walked in front of cars at the same speed as the Orange Walk .
4 Learners do not all develop at the same speed in the same way .
5 Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed .
6 After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter .
7 Gram for gram , the quail uses 10 times more energy at the same speed .
8 After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed .
9 An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum .
10 At the same time , the video head drum , which rotates 1500 times a minute , stops dead and starts spinning at the same speed in the opposite direction .
11 His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) .
12 The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems .
13 He suggests that the term ‘ porpoising ’ should be used to describe any aquatic animal that leaps out of the water and uses less energy than it would if it were surface swimming at the same speed .
14 An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child .
15 It is a relief to hear him taking the Trio at the same speed as the Scherzo , and not inexplicably slowing down like so many others .
16 Their aim is to deny the batsman room to play the ball away square of the wicket and wide of the fieldsmen in the V. They occasionally bowl a slower delivery to upset the timing of the batsman who swings uniformly at the ball in the expectation that it will always come on the bat at the same speed .
17 The arms should move at the same speed as the legs .
18 It is functionally compatible with 24-pin generic array logic devices and functions at the same speed as the 16V8 above .
19 It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet .
20 It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine .
21 Classically one or other of these things happens to all the marbles that start out at the same speed ; either they all get over or they all fall back .
22 Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth .
23 They both do the round trip in straight lines at the same speed , so they get back together .
24 As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 .
25 This lets them process graphics at the same speed as their Intel chips instead of the tardy 8MHz allowed by the traditional ISA buses .
26 Local bus is a technology whereby certain peripheral cards , such as video or IDE host cards , can have their own private bus which runs at the same speed as the processor , thus enhancing overall system throughput .
27 It runs at the same speed — 8.33 MHz — but can handle 32 bits of data instead of 16 .
28 Local bus or VL buses are designed to overcome this problem by running at the same speed as the processor .
29 Osborne ( 1977 ) observed that young dog-whelks less than 12mm in shell length grew at the same speed , regardless of their habitat of origin , or where they were reared .
30 How can observers moving at different speeds all measure light at the same speed ?
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