Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerly harumphed , and moved off again , walking just as fast as before . |
| 2 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 3 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 4 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 5 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 8 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 9 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm getting there as fast as I can . |
| 12 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 13 | IF ANYTHING is falling apart as fast as Britain 's Victorian infrastructure it is Britain 's post-war infrastructure . |
| 14 | One look at the screenshots will tell you this is n't a dodgy Speccy port , updating about as fast as a reasonably athletic snail . |
| 15 | 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 . |