Example sentences of "speed up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A round of modifications has speeded up Stars & Stripes for the fourth round of trials . |
| 2 | Other SmartMath features include symbolic/numeric optimisation which simplifies expressions before they are calculated and so speeds up calculations , and live symbolics which trigger the program to evaluate expressions symbolically , using all previous definitions in the document . |
| 3 | This speeds up calculations , reduces memory requirements and often lets you use narrower columns , so you can fit more on-screen . |
| 4 | The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable . |
| 5 | BRITAIN 's Ministry of Defence is speeding up plans to buy new ships , radars and weapons . |
| 6 | These changes were aimed at speeding up trials and saving government expenditure by allowing some cases which would have previously been tried in the Supreme Court moved to district courts , and by having other cases tried by police courts instead of district courts . |
| 7 | With a dial access terminal anyone can contact a pager from any internal telephone extension , thus obviating the need for an operator for the paging system , and considerably speeding up communications . |
| 8 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 9 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 10 | He wanted a more determined effort to speed up deliveries and to force an expansion of manufacturing capacity to meet the BEA 's greatly enlarged needs . |
| 11 | To speed up Windows performance , SoftPC 3.0 includes special Windows display and mouse drivers that map Windows display and mouse instructions directly to the Motif environment . |
| 12 | Among the ideas under consideration are : — changes to bus lanes in a bid to speed up services ; — giving buses priority at traffic lights ; — contraflow bus lanes allowing public transport to travel against the main flow of traffic in a one way street ; — measures to protect bus stops from careless motorists who park illegally . |
| 13 | to speed up investigations and criminal proceedings , |
| 14 | The convention 's eighth protocol , which was opened for signature in March 1985 and was intended to speed up procedures before the Commission of Human Rights and the Court of Human Rights ( see p. 33881 ) , came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 15 | While the intention was also to speed up procedures , the initial introduction caused some practical difficulties . |
| 16 | If he wishes me to try to speed up replies , I shall certainly do so . |
| 17 | More trains are promised between Saltburn , Redcar , Middlesbrough and Darlington although the number of calls at South Bank will be reduced to speed up journeys . |
| 18 | Private bill attempts to speed up laws on knife offences |
| 19 | Mulford said that about $6,700 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed , mostly to front-line states , and he appealed to Japan and Germany to speed up payments . |
| 20 | Debate over attempts to limit the number of appeals allowed to prisoners on death row in order to speed up executions affected both courts and Congress following the recommendation of a special five-judge judicial committee in September 1989 that the federal law be amended to allow states the option of permitting prisoners only one round of appeals . |
| 21 | He called for both prosecution and defence to declare their hands fully to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up proceedings . |
| 22 | In practice a somewhat smaller interval can be used to speed up calculations . |
| 23 | However , this last figure includes women who were induced or given oxytocin to speed up contractions . |
| 24 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 25 | His view was that numbers would speed up moves by helping players identify each other more quickly , but the Football League was outraged and forbade a repeat . |
| 26 | He has a local European Member of Parliament and I am sure that he is aware of ways by which he can speed up replies . |
| 27 | Drugs charities and authorities met at a conference this week to try and speed up assessments , with a proposal for other agencies to be vetted for carrying them out . |