Example sentences of "[verb] faster than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ‘ d be dropped faster than a hot brick if I betrayed a confidence . |
| 2 | Medical technology has moved faster than the ethicolegal system , and opinion is divided on many issues — the debate on virgin births being one example . |
| 3 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 4 | One of the key features of contemporary ocean shipment is that many of the vessels travel faster than the airmailed ocean bill of lading . |
| 5 | He arrives on stage going faster than an Olympic sprinter . |
| 6 | Sotheby 's was selected because the auction house could move faster than the Public Library , the original lender-to-be , and because it could offer a ‘ very favourable ’ interest rate , which neither of the parties will disclose . |
| 7 | Neumann further excuses this fast Beethoven minuet tempo , referring to the fast verbal tempo indications by Haydn for the minuets of his last eight quartets , by calling attention among other things to Beethoven 's accompanying words to this Menuetto , ‘ Allegro molto e vivace ’ , saying that ‘ when Haydn [ and , we presume , Beethoven ] wanted a minuet to be played faster than the unhurried Allegretto , he unfailingly indicated his intentions with eloquent tempo words . ’ |
| 8 | As the right hon. Gentleman is now keen to look at a longer period than just the last year , he will also be interested to know that between 1981 and 1991 the British economy grew faster than the German economy , the French economy , the Italian economy or the economy of any other country in Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ On snow , nothing can go faster than a good man on skis . ’ |
| 10 | It is a method of fulfilling a deep desire of the public to be deceived by the politician into thinking that public expenditure can be increased faster than the national income is increased without their noticing any diminution of their own rate of increase in purchasing power and standard of living . |
| 11 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 12 | On the one hand , if the chosen index rises faster than rents , or if rents fall , the tenant may find himself paying a rent in excess of the market rent ; on the other hand , if rents rise faster than the chosen index , the landlord may find himself receiving an uneconomic return from his property . |
| 13 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 14 | Suppose you sometimes feel tempted to drive faster than the allowed speed limit , perhaps because you are in a hurry or because you decide that it is quite safe to do so and that the speed limit is unnecessary . |
| 15 | Because a pony goes faster than a big horse . |
| 16 | The prices of another , broader category of goods began to rise faster than the general price level and attracted enormous sums of speculative funds . |