Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] faster [subord] " in BNC.

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1 The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich .
2 Industry preparing for the Government legislation is luring inspectors away faster than they can be recruited to enforce it .
3 The interval training should be run at your average 5K speed to start with , and your repetition sessions slightly faster than 10K speed — later on you can go faster .
4 Retrieve and change data far faster than a human can .
5 The revenue was never enough for this , and the Company began declining into bankruptcy much faster than before .
6 Francisco said , ‘ You have settled down in Spain much faster than Rosie .
7 Off road , where a bunch of still angry Scottish journalists might still feel so angry towards Chrysler that they would push the instructor in the lead vehicle far faster than he might prefer to go , the Wrangler can also hack it .
8 Standards for incineration have been going up too — in many countries even faster than standards for landfill .
9 He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this .
10 The growth of student numbers took place far faster than in the UK — and the consequences for the nature of university education have been correspondingly more dramatic .
11 You know how it is , Mr Lorton : strings are pulled , and we all have to go through the hoops rather faster than normal . ’
12 The United States population increased by twenty-eight million in ten years , at a rate even faster than India 's .
13 A house mouse can run at 13 km/h , larger species somewhat faster until the optimum size for -running is reached at about 120 kg .
14 As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones .
15 To sum up : in a time of unprecedented expansion of world trade Britain , the nation of shopkeepers , paid itself higher wages for producing very little more , while putting up its prices much faster than its competitors .
16 Local authorities increased their spending much faster than inflation , which meant that business rates had increased faster than inflation .
17 They were now drifting down river much faster than before .
18 And Maastricht promises to make the Europe-machine turn still faster because it pre-emptively convokes the next set of constitutional talks for 1996 .
19 However , computers which process information much faster than before , and programming techniques which emulate the way language works are developing rapidly .
20 I take exception to the fact that the people who are deciding matters at intergovernmental conferences want to force the issue of unification far faster than I would wish .
21 Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records .
22 The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with .
23 This may be the first piece of half-good news in three years for defence manufacturers who have seen orders for new equipment shrink even faster than national defence budgets ( chart 1 ) .
24 Hedgerows all over the Richmond constituency seem to be sprouting a new form of vegetation even faster than in the 1989 by-election .
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