Example sentences of "speeding up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions .
2 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 .
3 We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition .
4 However , they are now hitting physical limits to increasing computer performance and if this impressive progress is to be continued new approaches to speeding up computer performance will need to be developed .
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 The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings .
8 Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient .
9 Locally , the telephone was also speeding up business .
10 Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone .
11 Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone .
12 Many drivers were thinking twice about carrying out risky manoeuvres such as doing 90 miles an hour down the motorway even though such speeds benefited society in speeding up access to distant parts .
13 The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data .
14 But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations .
15 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 .
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