Example sentences of "faster than [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the second column of the table it can be seen that in 1977–8 , before the crisis year of 1979 , the money supply was growing faster than the cost of living . |
| 2 | BLUES ' SCALES Blues Saraceno Blues Saraceno 's metabolic rate must be seven times faster than the rest of mankind 's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since the period in question has been one of economic growth , and since it is argued that the demand for temporary workers grows faster than the demand for labour as a whole in periods of rising economic activity , our findings are particularly noteworthy . |
| 5 | In Lean 's film The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) , the central character , an engineer , is portrayed as a more deeply ambivalent figure , driven by his ambition to build a plane that goes faster than the speed of sound , seemingly prepared to accept the loss of his son and a pilot in pursuit of his dream , but actually torn by a deep sense of what he has lost . |
| 6 | To get out , they would need to travel faster than the speed of light , which is not allowed by the theory of relativity . |
| 7 | According to the theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than the speed of light , so there would be a region from which it would be impossible for anything to escape . |
| 8 | I 'd better warn you , they 've a bush telegraph around here that works faster than the speed of light . ’ |
| 9 | Such behaviour is in flat contradiction to the special theory of relativity ( SR ) which requires that no signal should travel faster than the speed of light , c . |
| 10 | Physicists tell us that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light , and this applies to signals inside a computer , too . |
| 11 | In conclusion , I wish to emphasize that all the charge rearrangements discussed in this section occur very fast , much faster than the period of oscillation of the magnetic field . |
| 12 | If companies reacted to early signs of slowdown with large cuts in production and investment , their demand for credit will have fallen sharply , perhaps faster than the supply of credit . |
| 13 | We can assume it in exactly the form stated above or we can relax it to the extent of saying that any influence of A upon B must not propagate between them faster than the velocity of light . |
| 14 | I have several times spoken of an " instantaneous effect upon B as a result of a measurement made on A. Is this not in flagrant contradiction to Einstein 's rule that signals do not travel faster than the velocity of light ? |
| 15 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 16 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 17 | Expenditure rose by 40 per cent between 1850 and 1870 , faster than the rate of population growth . |