Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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1 | A couple of you get down there as fast as you can and watch the cottage . |
2 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
3 | The central team of academic staff responsible for the management of the Course has grown with the size of the Course itself , although not always as fast as the individuals concerned would have liked . |
4 | Over the past decade productivity in Singapore has risen fast , but not nearly as fast as nominal wages . |
5 | Morris typed throughout the morning , driving the carriage of the department 's battered portable along with his two hammering fingers just about as fast as it would go . |
6 | I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks . |
7 | Driving once more as fast as she dared , she soon reached the pet shop and saw that Mr Miller was occupied with a customer . |
8 | These variations on the E- theme are taking off almost as fast as E itself . |
9 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
10 | They would make their way back home as fast as they could to receive the benefits of national health service treatment . |
11 | Got back here as fast as I could . |
12 | ‘ As the fakes wear out twice as fast as proper pads , the driver could hit his brakes one day and the car would swerve violently to the side where the real pad has been fitted , ’ he said . |
13 | Dandelion would be over the top and back almost as fast as a hare . |
14 | ‘ It is about twice as fast as conventional dipping , ’ claims Glyn Williams , UK distributor of the franchise . |
15 | Multiprocessors should perform at least twice as fast as the current top-end Model 755 workstation which goes to 150 SPECfp92 and 80 SPECin92 . |
16 | If you want to get somewhere else , you must run at least twice as fast as that ! ’ |
17 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
18 | Below right : Brabham BT55 used lie-flat BMW turbo and was knee-high to a grasshopper , but was never half as fast as it looked |