Example sentences of "twice [adv] fast " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheatstone 's invention was almost twice as fast at 100 words/min ( see box ) . |
| 2 | Pre-tax profit rose nearly twice as fast , gaining £20.5million to £176.5million . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profit rose nearly twice as fast , gaining £20.5million to £176.5million . |
| 4 | The other , in a soprano , spoke twice as fast . |
| 5 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 6 | ‘ It is about twice as fast as conventional dipping , ’ claims Glyn Williams , UK distributor of the franchise . |
| 7 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 8 | UNEMPLOYMENT is rising in the South East twice as fast as anywhere else in Britain , figures showed yesterday . |
| 9 | CONCORDE : It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon . |
| 10 | MathSoft reckons the package runs twice as fast as before and enables users to manipulate ‘ virtually unlimited ’ amounts of data . |
| 11 | Overall , industrial electricity sales grew twice as fast as industrial output . |
| 12 | Multiprocessors should perform at least twice as fast as the current top-end Model 755 workstation which goes to 150 SPECfp92 and 80 SPECin92 . |
| 13 | Too few of his greatest paintings are sold at auction to be indexed but appear to have risen at least twice as fast . |
| 14 | Effective study does not mean reading twice as fast ( one measure of efficiency ) or writing twice as much in a given time period ( another measure of output over input ) . |
| 15 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 16 | Quiss and Ajayi had carried out experiments using identical candles , lit at the same time , one hard by the face of a clock , the other in the middle of the room with them ; the candle by the clock burned nearly twice as fast . |
| 17 | If you want to get somewhere else , you must run at least twice as fast as that ! ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 20 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 21 | ‘ As the fakes wear out twice as fast as proper pads , the driver could hit his brakes one day and the car would swerve violently to the side where the real pad has been fitted , ’ he said . |
| 22 | twice as fast . |