Example sentences of "almost [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 2 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union was ready with its condemnation , almost as fast as Mrs Thatcher was with her welcome . |
| 4 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 5 | These variations on the E- theme are taking off almost as fast as E itself . |
| 6 | If you have a supply of Duckweed — or Indian Fern , which grows almost as fast as Duckweed in my tanks — you can use this to advantage , as it will supply relatively-natural vegetable food and can , unlike plants which need to be rooted to thrive , be easily replaced . |
| 7 | By the time the stars had faded , Maldita 's heart had rallied , beating almost as fast as her pounding little hooves had on the pampas . |
| 8 | Dandelion would be over the top and back almost as fast as a hare . |
| 9 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 10 | Lord Alverstone recorded that when at the Bar he was able to read the sheets of correspondence almost as fast as he could turn them over , and he never required to read them twice . |
| 11 | Fortunately , telecommunication technology is developing almost as fast as silicon chip technology and is expected to be able to meet the demands that will be made on it by computers and microelectronics over the next few years . |
| 12 | The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria . |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 14 | They ran almost as fast as nomes . |
| 15 | Nine minutes it 's taken him this evening , no more — almost as fast as me . |
| 16 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 17 | Jackson , who is to give two sell-out concerts at the gigantic Fukuoka Dome on Friday and Saturday , left town almost as fast as he entered it . |