Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] fast [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kustar' system , which recovered much faster than heavy industry , had 122 arteli in the city in 1922 . |
| 2 | One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species . |
| 3 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 4 | Overall , therefore , hourly productivity probably rose significantly faster than yearly productivity , though measuring hours of work is difficult , especially in the self-employed sector . |
| 5 | Even if churches planted start very small , they can still grow much faster than larger ones . |
| 6 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 7 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 8 | Your letter is moved as fast as possible in the UK and you receive express delivery abroad where this is available ( see the list of countries in the Royal Mail International Guide ) . |
| 9 | Defensive positions must be prepared as fast as possible . |
| 10 | Invention , for example , of a completely new recording medium like the compact disc may grow very fast because all of us have become addicted to recorded music . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 13 | " I 've never seen anything work as fast as that injection . " |
| 14 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 15 | An average polar bear stands almost four feet tall at the shoulder , weighs 1,500 lbs and can run as fast as 25 miles an hour . |
| 16 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 17 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " I drive rather faster than these upright commercial gentlemen . |
| 20 | The electronic publishing market is no exception to this process but does seem to have been affected rather faster than most . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Their response to danger is to flee as fast as possible , rather than freeze or hide . |
| 24 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 25 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 26 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
| 27 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 28 | The old woman scarcely said a word and betrayed no emotion , although Martha felt an obscure sense of triumph and her mother was plainly anxious to leave as fast as possible . |
| 29 | Powered by a 550bhp Perkins engine and fitted with an advanced suspension system , Warrior can move cross-country faster than any other armoured vehicle currently in service with the British Army . |
| 30 | There is usually a pressing desire of all parties to proceed as fast as possible so the solicitors are required to produce their draft agreement before they have received all the information requested or the accountants have completed due diligence . |