Example sentences of "faster than a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would disappear faster than a Polaroid photo . |
| 2 | Carol had found my Sainsbury 's bag of booze faster than a sniffer dog could have . |
| 3 | The helmsman and the engineer controlled her easily and she reacted without hesitation to all commands , naturally much faster than a sailing vessel . |
| 4 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 5 | He spreads gossip faster than a travelling minstrel , and too many people here know I do n't possess a wife — yet . ’ |
| 6 | Beds vary enormously in style and price , but you get what you pay for and a cheap bed will wear out faster than a quality style . |
| 7 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |