Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |
| 2 | Wave after wave of brilliantly coloured cloth issued from the basket , threatening to engulf her , but she struggled manfully against it , her fingers as fast as light . |
| 3 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 4 | Nobody gets under them machines as fast as me . ’ |
| 5 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |