Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been going to convert it into flats but backed out of the deal nearly as fast as the second prospective buyer , who was a surveyor himself . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The keys fell to the ground just as fast as the paper , despite the keys being a lot heavier and needing more force . |
| 6 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 7 | For instance , are the fast reaction-times of the sleep-deprived subject really as fast as those when they are rested , and is the slightly slower average reaction-time simply the result of a number of isolated lapses ? |
| 8 | UNEMPLOYMENT is rising in the South East twice as fast as anywhere else in Britain , figures showed yesterday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 11 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |