Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 2 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 3 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 4 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 5 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 6 | They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly . |
| 7 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 8 | compatibility with existing phonographs did not matter , because dictation cylinders rotated at a different speed anyway . |
| 9 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 10 | Because the gas turbine operates at a constant speed of 90,000rpm , it is very efficient so that fuel consumption and emissions are low . |
| 11 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
| 12 | The disc revolves at a constant speed , holds 54,000 frames per side , and offers about thirty minutes of straight playing time on each side . |
| 13 | He suggests that the term ‘ porpoising ’ should be used to describe any aquatic animal that leaps out of the water and uses less energy than it would if it were surface swimming at the same speed . |
| 14 | So I feel a terrific relief and release that in the latter part of my business life I 've been really able to make things happen at a considerable speed . |
| 15 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 16 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 17 | Thus P = Q does not imply that P and q run at the same speed . |
| 18 | Therefore it is hypothesized that , rather than evolving at a constant speed in calendar time , futures prices evolve at a constant speed in event time . |
| 19 | In planning terms the scheme was understaffed and the whole operation conducted at a headlong speed rendered necessary by the short perspective and the uncertainty of UNICEF funding . |
| 20 | And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted . |
| 21 | The plane flying at a constant speed takes five seconds to go one thousand five hundred miles what |
| 22 | Begin to add the warm distilled water , drop by drop at first , to the oil and wax , beating with a rotary whisk , balloon whisk or an electric food mixer set at the lowest speed . |
| 23 | Since the lift generated depends on the ratio of two flow patterns ( created by the cylinder 's rotation and the wind acting on the cylinder ) a sudden increase in wind speed while the rotors turn at a constant speed reduces the lift in proportion . |
| 24 | Osborne ( 1977 ) observed that young dog-whelks less than 12mm in shell length grew at the same speed , regardless of their habitat of origin , or where they were reared . |
| 25 | Externally the damper appears as a cylindrical inertial load which can be clamped to the motor shaft so the damper housing rotates at the same speed as the motor . |
| 26 | They need perhaps ten times as much computational power as a 3D system to work at a similar speed . |
| 27 | An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum . |
| 28 | There are certain characteristics peculiar to the use of machines in language teaching : Listening To develop the ability to understand the language spoken at a normal speed . |