Example sentences of "grow as fast [subord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 So far we have looked at changing shares within total public spending , but has the absolute level of public spending grown as fast as critics suggest ?
3 It does not grow as fast as N. indicum , but the slender stalks produce more aerial leaves than the larger species .
4 Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries .
5 We want to grow as fast as we can . ’
6 Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement .
7 of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports .
8 Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects .
9 Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected .
10 THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe .
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