Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 2 | Enrolled training would be phased out as fast as possible , with existing enrolled nurses given opportunities for conversion courses . |
| 3 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 4 | Nor have prices gone up as fast as it predicted . |
| 5 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 6 | 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 . |