Example sentences of "fast as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can develop as fast as a Charolais if fed appropriately and under ideal circumstances it can achieve similar weights within the same time span , especially if breeders are selective in their choice of stock . |
| 2 | One look at the screenshots will tell you this is n't a dodgy Speccy port , updating about as fast as a reasonably athletic snail . |
| 3 | CONCORDE : It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon . |
| 4 | Running on a 33MHz 486 under SCO Unix , Windows appeared to be every bit as fast as a copy running in its native DOS environment . |
| 5 | Akram 's arm rotation , fast as a fan-belt , climaxes a bustling run-up leading to an unconventional delivery which taxes every sinew and ligament . |
| 6 | Dandelion would be over the top and back almost as fast as a hare . |
| 7 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 8 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 9 | In my younger days , ’ he bellowed , pulling his shoulders back martial fashion , ‘ I was keen as a greyhound , fast as a falcon swooping to the kill . ’ |
| 10 | I laughed and set spurs to my horse and thundered through the convent gates as fast as a deer . |
| 11 | You know fair enough , some of the older men ca n't move as fast as a eighteen year old , but on the other hand it 's what they got in their head that counts . |
| 12 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can a normal sword . |
| 13 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield their mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 14 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 15 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 16 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |
| 17 | As fast as the Prince could comply , however , the press were trying to marry him off . |
| 18 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 19 | While diesel cars will never be seen as road burners , they will go at least as fast as the ‘ cooking ’ versions of ordinary petrol-powered saloons and hatchbacks . |
| 20 | As fast as the stuff is dealt with and shoved in the out-tray , in comes another load . |
| 21 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 22 | As fast as the Poles installed them , the local Nazis tore them from their mountings and heaved them into the Radaune canal . |
| 23 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So writing about contemporary Britain never seems to change as much or as fast as the country itself . |
| 26 | The moment the work was done he had ordered his coachman to drive him back to Millfield as fast as the horses would go . |
| 27 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 28 | Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership . |
| 29 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 30 | The gags fly as fast as the bullets . |