Example sentences of "[adv] quickly than " in BNC.
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| 31 | Heat from the projector will dry up ink in the pens more quickly than with preparation on the film beforehand . |
| 32 | But McMahon and Greene 's model predicted that there was an ideal between these two extremes , a surface at which the runner would be deflected more quickly than on either a harder or a softer track . |
| 33 | Given the critical impact of assumption on oil prices and quantities , the CEGB will clearly need to explain why , with oil prices rising so rapidly , it can not reduce its oil consumption more quickly than it currently expects . |
| 34 | Recent experiments using chicks as ‘ predators ’ , and coloured , distasteful crumbs as prey , indicate that although the chicks at first eat the brightly coloured , aposematic , crumbs more quickly than cryptic ( inconspicuous ) crumbs , they also learn to avoid distasteful crumbs more quickly when they are brightly coloured than when they are cryptic ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 35 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 36 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 37 | Many people know , for example , that alcohol taken on an empty stomach is absorbed more quickly than alcohol taken with food . |
| 38 | Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks . |
| 39 | Women feel the effects of alcohol more quickly than men do . |
| 40 | For Margaret Olmer , born in Vienna in 1931 , despite forebodings at Liverpool Street , rural life in Norfolk proved congenial and , perhaps because she had already had to learn to adapt , she settled in more quickly than the daughter of her host family who was evacuated with her . |
| 41 | Instinctively , Martin Luther laid stress on the old Latin proverb , ‘ Nothing ages more quickly than gratitude . ’ |
| 42 | Lose weight more quickly than ever before , because a larger proportion of the calories you consume will remain undigested ; |
| 43 | So on a 1,000 calorie high-fibre diet the body is going to shed weight more quickly than on a normal 1,000 calorie diet of varied food — or on any other 1,000 calorie diet . |
| 44 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 45 | This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people . |
| 46 | While fibre-rich foods fill the stomach for lengthy periods , calories supplied in fluid alone pass through more quickly than any digested from solid foods . |
| 47 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 48 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 49 | THe local area network business is growing much more quickly than the PC industry as a whole . |
| 50 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 51 | We listen more quickly than we speak , and when we can anticipate what is coming next then we switch off . |
| 52 | Relief came more quickly than my troubled heart expected , for it had been decided that the matron of the SPG hospital at Mandalay could be spared for rural medical work . |
| 53 | Christian was one of the few killed in the capture of Rangoon , which had come about more quickly than most of us expected . |
| 54 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 55 | In periods of slump , for example , they may be drawn out of the labour market more quickly than other groups ( particularly unskilled and semi-skilled older workers ) ; in periods of labour shortage , the justification for retiring and becoming a ‘ non-producing consumer ’ may be questioned as part of a campaign to call back or retain people in the labour force . |
| 56 | And he added , with a simplicity that subsequent proponents of deterrence have learned to avoid : ‘ [ this ] means that you have to kill women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves . ’ |
| 57 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 58 | There is concern that cracks in some 747 fuse pins could spread much more quickly than was previously realised . |
| 59 | ‘ I do not , ’ said the Thing , rather more quickly than usual . |
| 60 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |