Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] fast [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is usually a pressing desire of all parties to proceed as fast as possible so the solicitors are required to produce their draft agreement before they have received all the information requested or the accountants have completed due diligence . |
| 2 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 3 | Up until the final minutes the jokes fly as fast as sniper 's bullets . |
| 4 | AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered . |
| 5 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 6 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'm sure the little girl 's friends ran specially fast because they loved her so much . ’ |
| 8 | Ample labour supplies permitted the operation of new machines without the need for product wages to rise as fast as productivity . |
| 9 | By the end of the period , however , the tighter labour market forced product wages to rise as fast as productivity to ensure sufficient scrapping to provide labour to operate newly installed equipment . |
| 10 | Once again , the wisecracks fly as fast as the bullets — and are just as deadly . |
| 11 | The gags fly as fast as the bullets . |
| 12 | ‘ You got to keep going when you find 'em , ’ he continued , ‘ the little buggers disappear as fast as they come . ’ |