Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] faster [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're getting there faster than we think . |
| 2 | We 're getting there faster than we think . |
| 3 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 4 | Expert systems sales are growing much faster than the software business as a whole . |
| 5 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 6 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 7 | The electronic publishing market is no exception to this process but does seem to have been affected rather faster than most . |
| 8 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 9 | Because the characters can be transmitted much faster than they can be printed they are stored , in the printer , in a block of memory known as a buffer . |
| 10 | hang on to somebody elses tail lights , it gives us a false sense of security watch your speed , you may be going much faster than you think , do not speed up to get away from the vehicle which is too close behind you , remember that if you 're driving with heavy people it may take longer to pull up and speed on ahead , warning signals or |
| 11 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 12 | The spokesman said the car should not be driven much faster than 40mph in first . |
| 13 | As the Sowton Mill has an automatic packer and pelletizer it means bagging and lorry loading can be handled much faster than at Crediton . |
| 14 | The figures confirm a trend reported in a study by NASA , the US space agency , in April , which showed that the ozone layer over much of the United States was also being depleted much faster than expected . |
| 15 | The water from the lower source is emitted sufficiently faster than the main flow that it forms a turbulent jet . |
| 16 | And , just like a spent rocket , the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise . |
| 17 | Describing the market as ‘ unquenchable ’ , UK managing director of Precision Visuals , Nick Lewis , says the European market is growing proportionately faster than that in the US . |
| 18 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 19 | And the plane 's going slightly faster than the Hercules or Andover . |
| 20 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
| 21 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 22 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
| 23 | Jo 's talking even faster than usual , shows she 's still feeling a bit down . |
| 24 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |
| 25 | Malayan barn owls are adapting quickly to this rich habitat and are reproducing much faster than elsewhere . |
| 26 | It is even more important now as a recent environmental report said Britain 's woods are disappearing much faster than the Amazon rain forests . |
| 27 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
| 28 | The major problem identified by eugenicists during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries was that the birth rate of the middle class — the eugenically fit — was falling much faster than that of the working class . |