Example sentences of "have [verb] as fast [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush has enjoyed rising approval ratings , and communism 's appeal has collapsed as fast as communism . |
| 2 | I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl . |
| 3 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 4 | ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’ |
| 5 | If during the last twenty years , the costs of automobiles had declined as fast as those for memory capacity in computers , today a Rolls-Royce would cost 50 cents ( van Tulder and Junne , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Sometimes there may be a timed section which is a few jumps and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 7 | This a times course of jumps in a ring and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 8 | One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP . |