Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Because the gas turbine operates at a constant speed of 90,000rpm , it is very efficient so that fuel consumption and emissions are low . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The plane flying at a constant speed takes five seconds to go one thousand five hundred miles what |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They need perhaps ten times as much computational power as a 3D system to work at a similar speed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the next Chapter , for example , it is shown that the system requires a large forcing resistance to operate at the highest speeds and in most cases the total phase resistance is then much greater than the optimum for electromagnetic damping . |
| 19 | 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 . |