Example sentences of "almost [adv] fast as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine minutes it 's taken him this evening , no more — almost as fast as me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 4 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 5 | The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria . |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 7 | Lord Alverstone recorded that when at the Bar he was able to read the sheets of correspondence almost as fast as he could turn them over , and he never required to read them twice . |
| 8 | Jackson , who is to give two sell-out concerts at the gigantic Fukuoka Dome on Friday and Saturday , left town almost as fast as he entered it . |