Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guitar 's dimensions do limit its penetrating power , but what you get instead is a sparkly , ultra-fast response that clearly articulates fingerpicked notes as fast as you can spit them out . |
| 2 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can a normal sword . |
| 3 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield their mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 4 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 5 | Outside on the roof the drummers began to speed up , thrashing the great cavernous half-globes as fast as their hands could rise and fall . |
| 6 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 7 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 8 | ‘ Instruct the freighters to make revolutions immediately and head for the open seas as fast as possible , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 10 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |