Example sentences of "fast than [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would disappear faster than a Polaroid photo . |
| 2 | Carol had found my Sainsbury 's bag of booze faster than a sniffer dog could have . |
| 3 | The helmsman and the engineer controlled her easily and she reacted without hesitation to all commands , naturally much faster than a sailing vessel . |
| 4 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 5 | He spreads gossip faster than a travelling minstrel , and too many people here know I do n't possess a wife — yet . ’ |
| 6 | Beds vary enormously in style and price , but you get what you pay for and a cheap bed will wear out faster than a quality style . |
| 7 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |
| 8 | Expert systems sales are growing much faster than the software business as a whole . |
| 9 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 10 | Walls : Being vertical surfaces these can present special problems because chemical run-off is sometimes faster than the contact time required . |
| 11 | The novices , spearheaded by Ireland 's Montelado in the opening race , went faster than the champion field , so quick in fact they set a track record . |
| 12 | Ideas of speed might be introduced ; his dad 's van goes faster than the toy van in the garage . |
| 13 | Wage rises , including increases in the minimum wage , had grown faster than the price index . |
| 14 | When he judged the moment was right — that he could turn the Mercedes faster than the truck driver could alter the onward rush of his mammoth — he swung the wheel to the left , switching to the outer lane . |
| 15 | The mail coaches which were introduced in 1783 went at around 8 miles an hour , 2 miles faster than the riding horses . |
| 16 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 17 | Manchester University 's Computing Centre will soon boast the largest single computational node in the UK when it replaces its VP1200 supercomputer with a VPX240/10 machine from Fujitsu Systems Business ( Europe ) : it is the first Fujitsu VPX machine to be sold in the UK since launch last year 's launch and features one scalar processor , one 2.5GFLOPS vector processor , 1Gb main memory , 1Gb of secondary memory ; it is four times faster than the five-year-old system it is replacing and will be used for computational fluid dynamics and engineering research ; delivery is planned for July ; no price was given . |
| 18 | In the endless quest for short-term profits , fishing companies use drift-nets in the full knowledge that dolphins , seals , turtles , and sea birds will be killed , often much faster than the target fish species . |
| 19 | There are a number of reasons for expecting the prices of index futures to adjust faster than the spot price , i.e. the market index . |
| 20 | Students tend to want to move faster than the form dictates . |
| 21 | We mentioned the ‘ unlandable ’ lightweight kites and have explained how the lift component can enable a kite to fly faster than the wind speed . |
| 22 | It generally has more impact on debtors and moves along faster than the County Court . |
| 23 | In his Essay on the Principle of Population of 1797 , Malthus had argued that the human race always had the potential to breed faster than the food supply could be increased . |