Example sentences of "twice [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 2 | ‘ It is about twice as fast as conventional dipping , ’ claims Glyn Williams , UK distributor of the franchise . |
| 3 | UNEMPLOYMENT is rising in the South East twice as fast as anywhere else in Britain , figures showed yesterday . |
| 4 | CONCORDE : It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon . |
| 5 | MathSoft reckons the package runs twice as fast as before and enables users to manipulate ‘ virtually unlimited ’ amounts of data . |
| 6 | Overall , industrial electricity sales grew twice as fast as industrial output . |
| 7 | Multiprocessors should perform at least twice as fast as the current top-end Model 755 workstation which goes to 150 SPECfp92 and 80 SPECin92 . |
| 8 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 9 | If you want to get somewhere else , you must run at least twice as fast as that ! ’ |
| 10 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 11 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 12 | ‘ As the fakes wear out twice as fast as proper pads , the driver could hit his brakes one day and the car would swerve violently to the side where the real pad has been fitted , ’ he said . |