Example sentences of "speed up [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Eradication of H pylori speeds up ulcer healing , with a six week healing rate of 84.9% compared with 60% in patients with persistent H pylori infection ( p=0.0148 ) .
2 In addition , H pylori eradication speeds up ulcer healing and is associated with healing of previously refractory ulcers .
3 Sun wo n't let go of the advantages of its own technology , which include font maker technology originally from its 1988 acquisition of Folio Inc ( UX No 198 ) which speeds up font design , especially when big-alphabet Japanese , Korean , Taiwan and Chinese applications are involved .
4 However , they are now hitting physical limits to increasing computer performance and if this impressive progress is to be continued new approaches to speeding up computer performance will need to be developed .
5 The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings .
6 The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data .
7 They also heard that the gantry was new , built to speed up painting work on the bridge .
8 Commentators said that the conciliatory tone of the speech indicated that South Korea was hoping to speed up reunification talks before Kim Il Sung transferred power to his son , Kim ChongIl .
9 Attempt to speed up pit closure white paper
10 He maintained the IFA 's statement resulted from its desire to speed up court cases pending against IBM and used the tired old argument about local opposition blocking further investment and thus hurting the local economy : ‘ Irish Base Metals are working with a major oil company and we have to convince them that Ireland and Galway are good places for investment .
11 In the days of calculators and computers , we no longer use log tables to speed up hand calculations .
12 His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly .
13 The ARA used its good offices to speed up railway agreements between Latvia and Poland on the one hand , and Russia on the other , so that relief supplies could flow in more easily from Western Europe .
14 British Coal Enterprise Ltd has recently set up a Fast Track Loans Scheme to provide almost ‘ instant loans ’ for small businesses in a bid to speed up job creation in pit closure areas .
15 The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation .
16 On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 .
17 The all-embracing AD/Cycle combines a set of standards and interfaces to speed up application development .
18 The all-embracing AD/Cycle combines a set of standards and interfaces to speed up application development .
19 large-scale fiscal measures to speed up slum clearance and housing schemes , to improve local amenities , to boost family incomes by generous family allowances , to improve the job market in the inner city , and to implement the proposed extension of nursery provision .
20 Speed up Council House repairs
21 The system should run Version 3.11 of Novell 's netware , to improve memory use ; speed up traffic flow ; reduce errors ; and make back-up , restore and print server utilities more efficient .
22 Giving buses priority at busy junctions would also speed up travel times , says Mr Tapper .
23 A computer system can speed up recruitment administration by a factor of about 10 , and enable the updating of records and the production of letters to be performed as a single operation .
24 He says that the technique has meant they can speed up research time , helping to stay ahead of the field .
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