Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] faster [subord] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species . |
| 2 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
| 3 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 4 | Describing the market as ‘ unquenchable ’ , UK managing director of Precision Visuals , Nick Lewis , says the European market is growing proportionately faster than that in the US . |
| 5 | Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops . |
| 6 | The major problem identified by eugenicists during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries was that the birth rate of the middle class — the eugenically fit — was falling much faster than that of the working class . |
| 7 | Certainly women 's mortality rates have improved significantly faster than those for men ( Table 3 ) , but it is difficult to come to any general conclusions about health status for the period 1870–1950 , particularly in respect to working class women . |