Example sentences of "fast [coord] too " in BNC.

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1 Anyone ‘ waving ’ the reader slightly too fast or too slow will produce all Os or all 1s .
2 This is caused by : homogeneity of task , ie lack of variety emotions caused by frustration or discouragement a rate of learning which is too fast or too slow Fatigue may reduce the effort the student is putting into learning or he may fix his attention on particular elements of the work to be learned rather than on the work as a whole .
3 Calmly I paid for the pod 's berth and walked away , neither too fast nor too slow .
4 Sue Baker , Observer motoring correspondent , has a theory : ‘ So often , when driving on a motorway , you see strings of cars in the outside lane , driving too fast and too close , the drivers trying to intimidate one another .
5 Motorway police chief Inspector David Haikings said : ‘ It was six degrees Centigrade below and drivers were driving too fast and too near to each other .
6 Religious conviction , in that age , and still more religious observance , were seen as naturally conservative ; and the Christian revival of the 1940s was openly regressive , anxious above all that the world might be changing too fast and too far .
7 He had assured Lucille that he fought only because his pension would be jeopardized if he refused , but in truth he had wanted to know whether the old skills were still there or whether , like a cannon fired too fast and too often , he had simply worn himself out as a soldier .
8 This time his lance struck accurately in the throat of his adversary 's helmet , too fast and too high to be warded off , and hurled the rider to the ground and his mount off-balance , dragged by the tightly-gripped rein , to roll upon his master .
9 Part of her mind , the cool , rational fragment , was insisting that it was all happening too fast and too soon .
10 It has been suggested that the Soviet political process produces tendencies for problems to be faced too late and for decision-makers then to push too fast and too far paying little heed to the impact of their decisions in other realms .
11 Their voices are too fast and too high , like a bat squeak .
12 Despite vehicles themselves being made safer , Peter Joslin says drivers are still travelling too fast and too close to the person in front .
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