Example sentences of "[is] [verb] faster than " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 2 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
| 3 | Argentina is moving faster than Brazil in removing barriers to trade and investment . |
| 4 | Opinion among ordinary teachers is moving faster than among the trade union professionals or NUT militants . |
| 5 | Depletion of the ozone layer over the Antarctic has started earlier and is spreading faster than last year , according to US scientists . |
| 6 | One is that , if there is going to be a high level of unemployment because productivity is rising faster than output , this means that the cost of goods and services is falling fast and either consumer demand is not increasing fast enough or industry can not gear up production fast enough to create the demanded extra output . |
| 7 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 8 | British unemployment is rising faster than unemployment in any country in the rest of the European Community . |
| 9 | Can there be a more telling difference between the day when the CBI has confirmed the depth of the recession , unemployment is rising faster than in any other European country , we have a training and skills crisis , which the Government are making worse daily , and the fact that the Conservatives are returning to the agenda of the 1970s because they have no answers to the problems of the 1990s ? |
| 10 | Work on developing the PowerPC version of IBM Corp 's Rios RISC is progressing faster than anyone , including partners in the venture IBM , Apple Computer Inc and Motorola Inc believed possible , and chips should be ready before the end of the year with the possibility of machines being announced very late this year , Electronic News reports . |
| 11 | Their disposable wealth is increasing faster than any other segment of the population . |
| 12 | The Department of Health is warning that H I V infection among heterosexuals is increasing faster than in any other group . |