Example sentences of "[adv] fast that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 2 | Now Fenna rose , higher and higher , and , holding all his power for one sharp second of perfect concentration , revealed to Maggie the crazy onrushing of the galaxy where everything spins through space so fast that the observer is locked in stillness . |
| 3 | Jinny went bright red and started towards the door so fast that Keith did not catch her up until she was outside on the path . |
| 4 | My only worry is that , with the ground drying up , they might go so fast that he gets disheartened . |
| 5 | A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed . |
| 6 | Jazz clouted the skinhead over the ear so fast that the boy never saw it coming and reeled back , off balance . |
| 7 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 8 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 9 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 10 | I do not care about information being able to reach my home VDU so fast that the Encyclopaedia Britannica can get there in five seconds . |
| 11 | Then , so fast that the movements are almost impossible to analyse , the cat lashes out with its claws extended , raking the skin of the hand in front of it . |
| 12 | Outside young girls in pairs hold hands facing each other and , leaning back , they pirouette so fast that their shawls flare out from the tops of their heads . |
| 13 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 14 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 15 | ‘ The widow , ’ replied Hank , with more than a trace of impatience in his voice , and then continued : ‘ And it 's selling so fast that I do n't know what to do with the money . |
| 16 | This time her mouth fell open so fast that she nearly lost her top dentures . |
| 17 | In the event , it all happened so fast that even had Doyle slipped into the garage after Weaver , he would have been too late to prevent tragedy . |
| 18 | One way to do this is to give them a hefty shove and hurl them together so fast that their mutual electrical repulsion can not resist , as in the Sun where the temperature at the centre is so great that the protons are highly agitated and occasionally collide at which point the energy-liberating fusion mechanisms take over . |
| 19 | SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down . |
| 20 | Then it went straight up so fast that it was just a blur and jerked to a halt high over the crowd . |
| 21 | And the triple classic winner flew across Newmarket Heath so fast that Clive is brimming with confidence that she can stay unbeaten next Sunday . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , it all happened so fast that they cancelled the sold-out dates because they simply could n't get their work permits in time . |
| 23 | He came to meet her so fast that the skirt of his white coat floated out behind him . |
| 24 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 25 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 26 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 27 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 28 | Chesarynth turned round guiltily , so fast that she almost overbalanced , her toe catching in her hem . |
| 29 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 30 | The next few seconds seemed to move so fast that none of the witnesses to it , eagles or people , could ever quite remember the sequence of events . |