Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] faster [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now I want to go faster than 1,000 words in six minutes . |
| 2 | Mr. Walker : I know that the Hon. Gentleman will be delighted that since the valleys initiative was announced , unemployment in the valleys has fallen faster than it has in the rest of Wales . |
| 3 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 4 | About the fact that , under Conservative , our productivity has grown faster than Japans ' . |
| 5 | Our standard of living has grown faster than Italy , Sweden and Switzerland . |
| 6 | Productivity in manufacturing has risen faster than in the past . |
| 7 | Over the past ten years recorded crime has risen faster than at any time in our history . |
| 8 | The low-income groups and pensioners spend a higher proportion of their money on food and fuel , whose prices have risen by more than other items , and so the inflation index for these groups has risen faster than inflation for the average person . |
| 9 | Hence it may be said that ‘ health service inflation ’ has risen faster than inflation in the rest of the economy . |
| 10 | The cost of this sector has risen faster than any other — a more than 40-per-cent increase in real terms from 1978/9 to 1987/8 . |
| 11 | Studies of the yearly growth rings of the Huon pines suggest that the temperature in the past 25 years has risen faster than at any other time since AD 900 . |
| 12 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 13 | Medical technology has moved faster than the ethicolegal system , and opinion is divided on many issues — the debate on virgin births being one example . |
| 14 | For the future says Ribas , ‘ We want to grow faster than the market , because that means we gain market share . ’ |
| 15 | To get out , they would need to travel faster than the speed of light , which is not allowed by the theory of relativity . |
| 16 | You would need to travel faster than light in order to end up where you started before the universe came to an end — and that is not allowed ! |
| 17 | Then no information can pass from P 1 to P 2 because it would need to travel faster than light itself . |
| 18 | The reality of life past 60 for most people has changed faster than society 's expectations of it . |
| 19 | Therefore state expenditure tends to increase faster than revenues . |
| 20 | ‘ We have got to grow faster than the economics we are in . |
| 21 | Oxygen , too , began to increase faster than new ‘ sinks ’ could neutralize it , or before it could be buried in sediments . |
| 22 | The Doctor began to talk faster as the pain built up . |
| 23 | ‘ Smaller boats tend to rock about more when the storms come , but they get moving faster when the weather calms down , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Bayonets were carefully sharpened then fixed ; hearts began to beat faster as the minutes passed , and they waited in silence for the command to advance . |
| 25 | The prices of another , broader category of goods began to rise faster than the general price level and attracted enormous sums of speculative funds . |
| 26 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |
| 27 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 28 | Last year was no disaster she placed sixth over 200 metres at the World Student Games and was a member of Britain 's silver medal winning 4 x 100 metres relay team but she will have to run faster than ever to earn selection for Barcelona . |
| 29 | Norman Willis , general secretary of the TUC , said the trade figures showed that imports were continuing to rise faster than export growth . |
| 30 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |