Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] faster " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his care , his concern for her made her heart beat even faster . |
| 2 | ‘ You disappoint me , ’ he said under his breath , and Rachel 's heart beat even faster at the darkness in his voice . |
| 3 | Daddy 's driven after you , but I did n't think he would catch you up because your car goes much faster than his . ’ |
| 4 | Now , I have always loved that city , its stench , the colour , bustle and noise , the way the blood beats ever faster through your veins . |
| 5 | Why wo n't the car go any faster ? |
| 6 | Why wo n't that car go any faster ? |
| 7 | For a time briefer than the smallest period measurable by today 's clocks , the universe grew ever faster , as energy stored up in some hitherto unsuspected field of force was released . |
| 8 | As it was , the proletariat grew considerably faster than total employment . |
| 9 | The number of passengers carried was 11.5 million in 1913 , 7 million in 1920 , and 12 million by 1924 : the productivity of river transport rose much faster after 1921 than that of the railways , although many problems had to be overcome , as was seen with regard to the Volga fleet in Chapter 3 . |
| 10 | The trick of combining lower marginal tax rates with a higher average tax take comes from the stepped progression of the tax system : as incomes rise people 's taxable income rises proportionately faster and larger slices of it attract the higher rates . |
| 11 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 12 | ‘ If we allow public spending to grow consistently faster than growth in output , then either public borrowing has to be increased or taxation , ’ he said during a debate on the policy review report Economic Equality . |
| 13 | In the three years to 1975 the CNAA 's workload more than doubled , and that of the Combined Studies ( Humanities ) Board increased even faster . |
| 14 | There has been some readjustment in run-up and an encouragement to bowl rather faster . |
| 15 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 16 | As the modern business world moves ever faster , the demand for more efficient transportation increases daily . |
| 17 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 18 | Heart beating even faster , she shook her head . |
| 19 | Her heart beating much faster than usual , her face much paler , she turned and high-stepped through the undergrowth towards the path along which the signpost pointed . |
| 20 | Large steam plate made wallpaper stripping much faster and easier ; 12ft long steam hose reached up to ceiling |
| 21 | The plant grows much faster in highland areas , however , maturing in two years rather than five . |
| 22 | The reason for the weighting of the stronger winds is to be found in the fact that their effectiveness increases much faster than their speed . |
| 23 | Like all withdrawals , the conversion of Empire into Commonwealth went far faster than was prudent or planned , thanks to American impatience , and to the hostility of the Communist and the Third World states . |
| 24 | Worried , she moved gently towards him as his speech grew ever faster . |
| 25 | Intriguing but unimportant differences were that the Earth spun much faster in those early days — so the days and nights were much shorter ; and the moon was much closer , so it would have appeared vast in the sky ( if there had been any creature to observe it ) and the tides would have been far more dramatic . |
| 26 | Innovations such as vaccination could spread over Western Europe and North America within a decade ; later the acceptance of the germ theory of disease spread even faster . |