Example sentences of "fast than [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 2 | Over the past ten years recorded crime has risen faster than at any time in our history . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Manufacturing productivity has risen by more than half since 1979 — faster than in any other major industrial country . |
| 5 | Movement from the land faster than in any other country helps to explain the United Kingdom 's high rate of emigration in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 7 | In the decade prior to nationalisation , electricity tariffs had hardly increased at all in money terms , and the average domestic price of electricity had fallen faster than in any other decade in history , both in real terms and relative to the price of its major competitors , gas and coal . |
| 8 | From 1961 to 1973 , Spain 's growth had been 7 per cent a year , faster than in any capitalist economy except Japan ; by 1976 – 81 , growth was down to 1.4 per cent a year . |