Example sentences of "as fast as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment the work was done he had ordered his coachman to drive him back to Millfield as fast as the horses would go . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 4 | Its commerce was increasing perhaps four times as fast as the rest of the country between 1716 and 1800 . |
| 5 | Without being told , he knew that as fast as the payments were made into five Swiss bank accounts , the money was transferred into five different accounts — the numbers of which were known only to Adam . |
| 6 | The boxes were stacked on desks and tables and covered the floors as fast as the shelves were emptied . |
| 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 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 9 | As fast as the council ordered the arrest of one carrier , the story ran to the opposite end of the land and broke out afresh . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As fast as the Prince could comply , however , the press were trying to marry him off . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As fast as the stuff is dealt with and shoved in the out-tray , in comes another load . |
| 14 | As fast as the stuff disappeared into the centre so , on the far outside of the whirlpool , more and more of the dust clouds of outer space were captured and began their journey inwards — slowly at first , but always getting faster and faster . |
| 15 | The gags fly as fast as the bullets . |
| 16 | Once again , the wisecracks fly as fast as the bullets — and are just as deadly . |
| 17 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 18 | As fast as the packages are unloaded they are checked with the consignment notes , trundled off to weighing machines for their weight to be recorded , and are then conveyed to the decks or platforms convenient to the spot where they will be loaded later in the day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Here the air was clear and light , and the river Froom rushed as fast as the shadow of a cloud . |
| 21 | As fast as the Poles installed them , the local Nazis tore them from their mountings and heaved them into the Radaune canal . |
| 22 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 23 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 24 | In sum , accelerating accumulation pushed up employment quite rapidly , but not as fast as the stock of capital rose , since mechanization proceeded apace ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 25 | As fast as the street-cleaners worked , more snow swept down upon the street , shining like tracer bullets on the dark winter air . |
| 26 | I could n't even walk as fast as the kids , and standing for more than five minutes was impossible . |
| 27 | Pentium is five times as fast as the Intel 486 chip found in the swiftest of today 's desktop PCs . |
| 28 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 29 | The keys fell to the ground just as fast as the paper , despite the keys being a lot heavier and needing more force . |
| 30 | ( Part of the reason for this , other than the high initial cost of the hardware , is that film recorders take quite an appreciable time to image the slide whereas a rostrum camera works as fast as the operator can change the artwork . ) |