Example sentences of "[adv] as fast as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 2 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 3 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 4 | The keys fell to the ground just as fast as the paper , despite the keys being a lot heavier and needing more force . |
| 5 | The central team of academic staff responsible for the management of the Course has grown with the size of the Course itself , although not always as fast as the individuals concerned would have liked . |
| 6 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 7 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 8 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |