Example sentences of "speed [prep] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with .
2 They drove several miles at speeds of up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour .
3 They escaped along the M-4 at speeds of up to a hundred and thirty miles an hour .
4 And the police chased the gang along the M4 , at speeds of up to a hundred and thirty miles an hour .
5 Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a derivative of fast packet switching technology , offering speeds of up to the Gigabits per second range , supports voice , data , image and video , and can therefore implement ISDN .
6 ATM is a derivative of fast packet switching technology , offering speeds of up to the gigabits per second range , supports voice , data , image and video , and can therefore implement ISDN .
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