Example sentences of "[num] time as fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 2 | Pentium is five times as fast as the Intel 486 chip found in the swiftest of today 's desktop PCs . |
| 3 | These techniques allow the anisotropic parameters to be estimated more reliably and computed a hundred times as fast as previously . |
| 4 | The detector zoned system , however , is about four times as fast as the 29th edition system in detection , and requires only about one-fifth of the water for fire control . |
| 5 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 6 | Its commerce was increasing perhaps four times as fast as the rest of the country between 1716 and 1800 . |