Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as fast [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerly harumphed , and moved off again , walking just as fast as before . |
| 2 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 3 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 4 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 5 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 6 | Once round the corner , I moved forward as fast as I dared , though the going was very uneven . |
| 7 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 9 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 10 | Fortunately , telecommunication technology is developing almost as fast as silicon chip technology and is expected to be able to meet the demands that will be made on it by computers and microelectronics over the next few years . |
| 11 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 12 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 13 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 14 | May I advise you to hurry home as fast as you can . " |
| 15 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 16 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 17 | If you have a supply of Duckweed — or Indian Fern , which grows almost as fast as Duckweed in my tanks — you can use this to advantage , as it will supply relatively-natural vegetable food and can , unlike plants which need to be rooted to thrive , be easily replaced . |
| 18 | As with most young men who had succeeded in sowing casual wild oats , it was a case of get away as fast as you can before they start getting ideas . |
| 19 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'm getting there as fast as I can . |
| 22 | It had been clear that Bowman , a research scientist and administrator , was anxious to press ahead as fast as possible , and this had brought him into conflict on several occasions with industry , the government and the NRA chair , Lord Crickhowell . |
| 23 | I shuffled forward as fast as I dared along the central walkway , figuring this to be less likely to lead me towards a choice-limiting edge . |
| 24 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 25 | Overall , industrial electricity sales grew twice as fast as industrial output . |
| 26 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 27 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 28 | CONCORDE : It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon . |
| 29 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 30 | IF ANYTHING is falling apart as fast as Britain 's Victorian infrastructure it is Britain 's post-war infrastructure . |