Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] faster [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 2 | Expert systems sales are growing much faster than the software business as a whole . |
| 3 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 4 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 5 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 6 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 7 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 8 | As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load . |
| 9 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |