I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clock is fast/slow (= shows a later or earlier time than the real time )
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There’s no need to hurry – that clock’s fast.
a faster/slower rate
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The urban population has grown at a faster rate than the rural population.
a quick/fast exit (= done more quickly than usual )
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I made a quick exit before the speeches began.
a quick/fast learner (= someone who learns things quickly )
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She was a quick learner, and her English got better day by day.
a shade better/quicker/faster etc
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The results were a shade better than we expected.
a shade too big/hot/fast etc
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Matt’s clothes were just a shade too big for me.
a slow/fast reader
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Her son was quite a slow reader.
an express train/a fast train (= one that does not stop at many places )
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He boarded the express train to London.
breathe fast/rapidly (= breathe quickly because of illness, fear etc )
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He closed his eyes, breathing fast under the fever.
fast and furious
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The action is fast and furious .
fast breeder reactor
fast day
fast food
fast lane
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Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane .
fast track
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Many saw independence as the fast track to democracy.
fast/fast-flowing
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Fast-flowing currents made the rescue job even harder.
fast/slow etc grower
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Bamboo is a very vigorous grower.
fast/slow moving etc
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Be careful when changing lanes in fast-moving traffic.
fast/sound asleep (= sleeping deeply )
getting...nowhere fast (= was not helping me achieve anything )
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I soon realized that being tough was getting me nowhere fast .
life in the fast lane
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Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane .
make a fast/quick buck (= make some money quickly, often dishonestly )
move fast/quickly/swiftly
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You’ll have to move fast if you want to get a place on the course.
pull a fast one (= deceive you )
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He was trying to pull a fast one when he told you he’d paid.
rapid/fast
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Symptoms include a rapid pulse and dry skin.
rapid/fast
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The rapid pace of change creates uncertainty.
rapidly/quickly/fast
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House prices rose rapidly last year.
sb’s watch is fast/runs fast (= it shows a later time )
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No, it’s only 12.15 – your watch must be fast.
sb’s watch is fast/runs fast (= it shows a later time )
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No, it’s only 12.15 – your watch must be fast.
sinking fast (= getting weaker and about to die )
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The doctor said that the boy was sinking fast .
stuck fast (= stuck completely )
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The wheels stuck fast in the mud.
the fast/slow lane
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Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
asleep
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From the sound of his rhythmic breathing, Loretta could tell he was fast asleep .
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When her husband was fast asleep she must leave the bed, light the lamp, and get the knife.
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Quite at home in my bed, he fell fast asleep until dawn.
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Heather turned it slightly and saw that he was fast asleep .
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Bless him, he was fast asleep on the sofa.
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Mum is fast asleep in her chair.
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She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
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He lay fast asleep , surrounded by flames and smoke.
■ VERB
approach
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That deadline is fast approaching , and from the end of December Jubilee 2000 will be no more.
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It's hard to believe, but we're fast approaching the dessert hour.
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They made love as though tomorrow was fast approaching , and with it imminent departure.
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She was, of course, keenly interested in cinema, and her White House film festival was fast approaching .
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That said, the 1995 World Cup is fast approaching .
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The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
become
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The sport which is fast becoming a popular competitive alternative to the more traditional sports like eventing and hunter trials.
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Ishmael and Queequeg become fast friends.
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Should this happen, then our lives, and the quality of living, will fast become Utopian.
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Yet the public art programs can make only a small difference in the visual mess that Tucson is fast becoming .
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Snapshots and consumer imagery were fast becoming two sides of the same coin.
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The leader board was fast becoming a memory.
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It takes an intellectually open environment and an entrepreneurial edge to produce the kind of place that Bangalore is fast becoming .
drive
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He sent for his carriage and jumped in, and after telling his coachman to drive fast he ordered him to stop.
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So they drive fast , sleeping a few hours a night, then move on to the next job and paycheck.
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When they set off for church he set off for London, driving fast .
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He was driving fast , too fast for these streets.
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Jean drove fast , and was at the hospital in just under fifteen minutes.
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And I drove fast because I was scared.
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It pitches and bobbles on some roads, and bounces over the potholes driven fast .
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Raoul drove fast through back streets.
fade
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Read in studio Swindon Town's hopes of promotion are fading fast , after another defeat last night.
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It is just a little smile, and it fades fast .
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It was thin, fading fast like all horses in this bitter land.
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He was happy but was fading fast .
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Wet air blows in from the river, and the light is fading fast .
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The Raiders, sole occupants of last place in the West, are fading fast .
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Any expectations he may have had of inheriting a larger share of the Angevin Empire were fading fast .
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But the next half-century witnessed the general settlement of California, and by 1900 the condor was fading fast .
fall
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Quite at home in my bed, he fell fast asleep until dawn.
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When Mrs Thatcher left office, they were down to £455 million and falling fast .
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They kissed, and Felicity fell fast asleep, tired from her journey.
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When I looked again, he had fallen fast asleep.
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He had curled up on to his bed at the first opportunity and fallen fast asleep.
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But this time on their return to the car he fell fast asleep within minutes.
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The temperature inside ... minus twelve and falling fast .
go
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It wasn't going fast but it was going fast enough for what I wanted to do.
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Nature is preparing for autumn, and the front-row seats are going fast .
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The rabbits in front went fast and Hazel had little time to sniff about as he followed.
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The cars, by the sound, were going fast .
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In a touring boat we want long powerful strokes to go fast over long distances.
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Lithographs of the drawings have gone fast at $ 300 to $ 500.
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He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him.
grow
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The economically less powerful sections of the middle classes were growing fast both in numbers and in political consciousness.
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Children grow fast in this low gravity.
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The goat's milk helped the children to survive but Boris, who grew fast , suffered.
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This is an acceptable mode of adaptability for micro-organisms since these are fast growing .
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Smaller organisations have also grown fast .
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Savings and loans could not grow fast enough to make the required loans.
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The number of older people is growing fast , and will on average reach 12 % by 2025.
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Another fast growing category is the indigent elderly population in nursing homes.
happen
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In the summer of 1989 things began to happen fast .
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Things started to happen fast after that.
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It may not be happening fast enough, but the winds of societal change take a while to get up to speed.
learn
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And you're going to learn fast .
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Joe was the forerunner and mentor in foreign reporting, but Stewartaided by abundant letters of introduction from Joewas learning fast .
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The fledglings have grown and are learning fast , though still keep within the bounds of their parents' territory.
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They learn fast , believe me.
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Daine might be a novice Dreamer, but he was learning fast .
move
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The next he knew there was a shape in the sky to his left, moving fast towards him a little from below.
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Or some one driving north toward Lake of the Woods, moving fast , coming to her rescue.
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However, it is not moving fast enough to totally escape the pull of the Earth's gravitational field.
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San Diego is an international city and we are growing fast and we are moving fast.
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They had one at least of their number wounded, and they needed to move fast .
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When Ted was out of the bathroom and thumping around in the bedroom, I moved fast .
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He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald.
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The salamander, who now barely moved , could never have moved fast .
run
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Blondel, it seemed, could run fast .
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Did you kick the ball and then run fast ?
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These things can be had by any animal that really needs to run fast , but they must be bought.
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He was one of the younger bearers and ran fast .
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Sime found it difficult to run fast round a bend because his abductor muscles underwent too much strain.
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What happens if you run fast forward in vision?
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Mr Straw's particular problem, however, is that the situation is fast running out of control.
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She ran fast along a path until she bumped into her brother.
sink
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As it is, our reputation is sinking fast in the west.
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I was sinking fast in the mire of soft money.
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Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude, it carried on, sinking fast .
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With his credit card statements no longer cushioned by company expenses, John found himself sinking fast in financial quicksand.
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Mary is also sinking fast , now at the stage of complete alienation from her family.
walk
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Then I walked fast on to the dark lonely marshes.
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Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance, ordering some of the troops into the paddy field.
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If he walked fast he was too aware of trying to distract himself.
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They shook hands with Oliver and went away, walking fast .
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He took long strides and he walked fast but he walked easily too and without great exertion.
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She was easy to keep in sight, but she walked fast .
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He walked fast , with his head down, taking little notice of where they were going.
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Now a line of Masai warriors appears, walking fast .
work
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They must have worked fast to get it together, Charles thought.
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We would have to work fast .
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Sloth and bad organisation seem to be to blame, even though the builders are on high wages to work fast .
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He always was in a rush, working fast .
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Some of my men think you don't work fast enough down there.
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They worked fast , connecting tubes, hooking up monitors, measuring blood pressure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/good/long etc ball
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A bit like Dorigo ie he can cross a good ball when necessary.
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Anyway he is 24, is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit.
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Jackson will supplant Charlie Ward as the starting point guard, giving the team a better ball distributor.
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Leeds do play a lot of football, but they hit a long ball as well.
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Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
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Pow, Janir hit a long ball into the blackberry bushes beside the creek.
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Root threw me a fast ball .
a fast/slow etc walker
a touch disappointed/faster/impatient etc
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He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
as fast as his/her legs could carry him/her
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She ran to her mother as fast as her legs could carry her.
at a good/rapid/fast etc clip
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He was walking along at a good clip , his eyes idly panning the facades of the brownstone houses.
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Up ahead, a thoroughfare Traffic was going across the intersection at a good clip in both directions.
hold fast (to sth)
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Bush urged the party to hold fast to its traditions.
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But ever since the day when she had faced her own fears she had held fast to her principles.
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Difficult to hold fast to time.
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He kept his head, how-ever, and held fast to his golden apples.
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I am like a shipwrecked survivor holding fast to the debris, awaiting the arrival of the scheduled liner.
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If the Court holds fast to its abnegation of this traditional role, it could mark a sea change in federal-state relations.
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Jeffries was trying to cut him to ribbons; and here was Gordon trying to hold fast to Jeffries' coattails.
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Mr Buie held fast to his ground.
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She tried to struggle, but she was held fast.
play fast and loose with sth
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And there is his willingness to play fast and loose with the facts.
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Besides, it is playing fast and loose with the statistics to take 1981 as the baseline for the Government's claims.
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In what follows, I shall play fast and loose with these words and the subtle distinctions between them.
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They probably see it as a place where government plays fast and loose with tax dollars.
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To say that the Wattersons had played fast and loose with their investors' capital was an understatement.
plenty big/fast/warm etc enough
stand firm/stand fast
the best/biggest/fastest etc possible
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Any successful entrepreneurial venture starts with making sure that the entrepreneur is in the best possible mental and physical health.
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But the psychologist was never confident that he had obtained the best possible scores from Nelson.
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For a moment, I imagined the best possible to the worst possible reply.
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Obviously, the purpose is to ensure that the best possible pensions arrangements are reached.
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That way it will have the best possible start in life.
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The additional value farmers receive is the best possible free advice on both inputs and marketing.
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The horrifying news sent the Ciprianos on a nationwide search to find the best possible treatment for their daughter.
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This at once enhances the contribution which the court or parents can make towards reaching the best possible decision in all the circumstances.
the fast lane
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Cars in the fast lane were traveling at over 80 miles an hour.
thick and fast
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At first no one was interested in the job but now applications are coming in thick and fast.
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Rumors flew thick and fast that the government would close the newspaper.
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Rumours flew thick and fast that the company was going to be sold.
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Callers, suitably and sombrely attired, came thick and fast.
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Finally, may reactions to the paper come thick and fast from all quarters!
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Official recognition of the change came thick and fast during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
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The export market has not taken up the slack, so redundancies are coming thick and fast.
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The form for Swindon can only get better; the games are coming thick and fast.
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The invitations came thick and fast.
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The rumours are growing thick and fast as weeds and de Craon must be their sower.
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They are falling thick and fast, some of them upon our dead, and some upon their own...
trouble with a capital T, fast with a capital F etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fast -growing community
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Burglars work fast .
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Don't drive so fast - there's ice on the road.
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Don't talk so fast - I can't understand what you're saying.
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He ran home as fast as he could.
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Prices aren't rising as fast as they were a year ago.
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She walked faster and faster, then started to run.
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The car was going pretty fast when it went off the road.
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The front of the boat was stuck fast in the mud.
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The new fighter aircraft flies almost twice as fast as the old one.
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The spare tyre on the back of the Jeep was held fast by three strong bolts.
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We're working as fast as we can.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At which Stour realised suddenly that he was the one who must act, and fast .
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He must complete his mission and leave as fast as possible.
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It felt too fast for me.
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The growth of the plants from tubercles treated in this manner is then very fast .
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The tiny device shocks the heart into normal rhythm when it beats too fast .
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They ran off as fast as their legs would carry them.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extremely
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This machine is extremely fast on disk-intensive tasks, but the video card is less impressive.
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Fast is thus the semantic head of extremely fast .
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This extremely fast disk duplicator uses Extended Memory if present to hold an image of the disk being copied.
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John was also extremely fast and nimble, and he possessed a remarkable body-swerve which could prove most disconcerting to opposing defenders.
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They were animate, versatile, and extremely fast .
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They are, in effect, extremely fast dot matrix printers.
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At extremely fast tempos this lilt is lost and they even out as they would in a funk or fusion context.
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The referee has to see and correctly interpret extremely fast actions.
how
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But how fast and far is it rising?
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It is a measure of how fast and far events have moved that I do so now.
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They watched how fast people walk and talk.
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It is a gradual, continuously varying effect on how far you can walk, and how fast .
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Even small changes in how fast and how far the contraction spreads can have profound effects on form.
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All trainee managers follow the same route; how fast and how far they develop depends entirely on their individual performance.
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In Czechoslovakia's Civic Forum, there are doubts about how fast reform should go.
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There is no clear consensus about how fast or slowly dinosaurs moved.
really
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He managed to get the cab in gear and then he was away, really fast .
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When you move in, you must move in fast - really fast.
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We have to go really fast .
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Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him.
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Hawaii wasn't like that at all; we were just pure metal wildness played really fast and with a lot of chops.
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If they are really fast , the bowler may have a chance to hit the wicket before the batter returns.
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You said it came out really fast .
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You must have predominantly fast-twitch , white fibres in your muscles to generate really fast, explosive action.
■ NOUN
bowler
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The man Kelly was more a fast bowler than a darts player.
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One of the keenest spectators was Gloucestershire fast bowler David Lawrence.
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McDermott finished with 4-66, while fellow fast bowler Merv Hughes took 3-51.
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I am already one down to Imran, having declared that Waqar did not have the action of a genuine fast bowler .
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Read in studio Cricket ... Gloucestershire fast bowler Courtney Walsh has taken his fiftieth wicket of the season.
bowling
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He never gives in and that's half the battle in fast bowling .
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The fast bowling tactic has worked.
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He is currently undertaking research into batting techniques against fast bowling .
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This is a favoured technique with many great players of fast bowling , not least West Indies' Gordon Greenidge.
break
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They were Francis pushing the ball ahead to Mobley to finish off a fast break with a one-handed jam.
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He has filled the lanes on the fast break with Kevin Garnett in what looks like a greyhound race.
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She needs to do something to get in the game: a steal, a fast break , anything.
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The thing about the fast break is, well, you were fast today.
breeder
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The largest fast breeder reactor in the world is the Superphenix plant at Creys-Malville on the French/Swiss border.
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More recently, the demand for fast breeder reactors has seemed less urgent as worldwide supplies of uranium have become more plentiful.
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We would also have to discuss the development of fast breeder reactors, a necessity for all countries with limited uranium resources.
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No branch of nuclear technology is more detested and feared by the anti-nuclear and green lobbies than fast breeders .
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Additionally the controversial fast breeder and high temperature reactor projects are being re-examined.
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Protests reached their peak in 1977 with the decision to build the 1200 MWe fast breeder reactor at Creys-Malville.
buck
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I think people go out to make a fast buck without worrying about the consequences.
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All you had to do was write about it afterwards, and you could make a real fast buck .
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We are not in this for a fast buck .
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A fast buck Henry Rix 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest.
car
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The occasional very expensive, very fast car .
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I would be the one who got creamed by a fast car .
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First, there are those juveniles who steal and wreck fast cars .
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It's a very fast car , so it shouldn't take too long.
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Last year his father gave him a new car - a very fast car.
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It's like putting a blind man in a fast car and telling him to drive where and how he likes.
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He liked yachts, fast cars and horses.
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The insurance industry also provides some blocks to teenagers driving fast cars .
food
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This boom in fast food is providing strong competition for both staff restaurants and school meal services.
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Knutson frequently uses the slow cooker and oven for food pre tion instead of the microwave and fast foods.
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Obviously, the type of leadership qualities required for a fast food establishment are not the same as for an insurance company.
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Competitions are the fast food of the music business.
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Some fast food restaurants will be obliged to install costly emission-control vents.
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And it was wolfed down like fast food , digested with a raucous burp.
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Wendy's rejoined the fast food market in Great Britain after an absence of nearly six years.
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Go to fast food places at peak hours, when extra cooks and cashiers are working.
friend
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They never, however, became hard and fast friends and there was an unspoken rivalry between them.
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The two of them immediately became fast friends .
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The two become fast friends and Herbert gently and tactfully instructs Pip in social behaviour appropriate for a gentleman.
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Other volunteers want to become fast friends and cultural advisers.
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Within a few years they had become fast friends .
grower
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They fry were fed on baby brineshrimp and although not fast growers they seemed to do well.
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The Memphis company is a fast grower , with profits increasing more than 20 % in each of the past two years.
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It is also a very fast grower .
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It cuts well, and splits beautifully, an burns even when it is green; and it is a fast grower .
growth
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The fast growth of private trading and corruption associated with it could best be checked by individuals familiar with their localities.
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The second stage is a set of interviews with those managing the fast growth businesses to investigate the process of managerial recruitment.
lane
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It overturned in the fast lane on the twin-track road on the other side of Stowerton.
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They want to make life in the fast lane even faster.
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I pictured a man taking leave of his motor; wobbling from the fast lane towards the hard shoulder.
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One thing about driving a truck: it really is the fast lane into old age.
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Change tack immediately and take urgent action to get some talented protégés into your fast lane .
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Many gay men rejected these connections and found long-term partners, often away from the hubbub of the emerging gay fast lane .
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Next time some one cuts you up on the fast lane , pity him.
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For swimmers in the fast lane , it was 600 meters.
pace
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Terry Hands's direction whips all this along at a fast pace .
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That in itself was a risk and imposed a fast pace on the designers and builders.
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Wide roads lead to a new bridge crossing the water and traffic can proceed at a fast pace without a halt.
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Technological developments have been at a fast pace since the 1950s.
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The overweight people in this experiment, however, kept eating at the same fast pace throughout the meal.
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Unemployment has reached post-war records, and government schemes for the unemployed have replaced each other at a very fast pace .
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The intensity of instruction is a combination of fast pace and close focus.
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The traffic moves at a fast pace and averaging a speed of over one hundred kilometres an hour is not difficult.
road
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Gone is the wide fast road and its dangerous crossing, where the stripes gave walkers a false sense of security.
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But at the summit there's a fast road down if you take yourself too seriously.
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Wear a helmet, especially if using fast roads .
rule
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As long as you are comfortable, there are no hard and fast rules about clothing.
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However, this is not a hard and fast rule and there are numerous exceptions.
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The official departmental view is that no case is exactly like another, and hard and fast rules can not be applied.
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There are no hard and fast rules .
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But there are no hard and fast rules about the physique of a racing cyclist.
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It's difficult to give a hard and fast rule .
track
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Now Chairman Jack Strowger is banking on a bumper Christmas to get profits back on the fast track .
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But Huckelberry has also supported Bronson on many pro-environmental moves, including the fast track for incorporating Tortolita.
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People in Great Groups are never insiders or corporate types on the fast track: They are always on their own track .
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Courtney was a traditionalist, besides which Jack's career had finally begun to hit the fast track .
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But if you go with her, it means withdrawing from the fast track at Hopkins and entering a standard graduate curriculum.
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And the benefit of either the fast track remortgage service, or a £250 cashback.
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A genius who chucked the academic fast track for a tar paper cabin with no outhouse?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/good/long etc ball
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A bit like Dorigo ie he can cross a good ball when necessary.
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Anyway he is 24, is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit.
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Jackson will supplant Charlie Ward as the starting point guard, giving the team a better ball distributor.
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Leeds do play a lot of football, but they hit a long ball as well.
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Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
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Pow, Janir hit a long ball into the blackberry bushes beside the creek.
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Root threw me a fast ball .
a fast/slow etc walker
a touch disappointed/faster/impatient etc
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He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
as fast as his/her legs could carry him/her
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She ran to her mother as fast as her legs could carry her.
at a good/rapid/fast etc clip
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He was walking along at a good clip , his eyes idly panning the facades of the brownstone houses.
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Up ahead, a thoroughfare Traffic was going across the intersection at a good clip in both directions.
hold fast (to sth)
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Bush urged the party to hold fast to its traditions.
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But ever since the day when she had faced her own fears she had held fast to her principles.
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Difficult to hold fast to time.
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He kept his head, how-ever, and held fast to his golden apples.
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I am like a shipwrecked survivor holding fast to the debris, awaiting the arrival of the scheduled liner.
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If the Court holds fast to its abnegation of this traditional role, it could mark a sea change in federal-state relations.
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Jeffries was trying to cut him to ribbons; and here was Gordon trying to hold fast to Jeffries' coattails.
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Mr Buie held fast to his ground.
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She tried to struggle, but she was held fast.
play fast and loose with sth
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And there is his willingness to play fast and loose with the facts.
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Besides, it is playing fast and loose with the statistics to take 1981 as the baseline for the Government's claims.
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In what follows, I shall play fast and loose with these words and the subtle distinctions between them.
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They probably see it as a place where government plays fast and loose with tax dollars.
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To say that the Wattersons had played fast and loose with their investors' capital was an understatement.
plenty big/fast/warm etc enough
stand firm/stand fast
the fast lane
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Cars in the fast lane were traveling at over 80 miles an hour.
thick and fast
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At first no one was interested in the job but now applications are coming in thick and fast.
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Rumors flew thick and fast that the government would close the newspaper.
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Rumours flew thick and fast that the company was going to be sold.
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Callers, suitably and sombrely attired, came thick and fast.
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Finally, may reactions to the paper come thick and fast from all quarters!
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Official recognition of the change came thick and fast during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
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The export market has not taken up the slack, so redundancies are coming thick and fast.
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The form for Swindon can only get better; the games are coming thick and fast.
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The invitations came thick and fast.
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The rumours are growing thick and fast as weeds and de Craon must be their sower.
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They are falling thick and fast, some of them upon our dead, and some upon their own...
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Boeing's new plane is faster and more luxurious than anything else they have ever produced.
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Dean always loved fast cars and expensive clothes.
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I'm a pretty fast reader.
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I keep the clock five minutes fast , so I won't be late.
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Is it really 6:45, or is my watch fast ?
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One man's fast response saved a heart-attack victim's life.
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Rosa caught the fast train to London.
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The first pitch was fast and hard.
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The new convertible is fast and fun to drive.
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We hope Arlene will make a fast recovery.
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When I was a kid, I was the fastest boy in my class.
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But I am not as fast as he is.
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Despite its size, the buffalo is a very fast animal and can run up to thirty-five miles per hour.
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Nevertheless, when moral considerations made a fast imperative, his body had no veto.
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Other volunteers want to become fast friends and cultural advisers.
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Some in disbelief that a car so beautiful, so fast and so downright delicious could cost as little as £27,000.
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Training for speed must work repeatedly on the fast twitch fibres on a stop - go basis.
III. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/good/long etc ball
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A bit like Dorigo ie he can cross a good ball when necessary.
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Anyway he is 24, is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit.
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Jackson will supplant Charlie Ward as the starting point guard, giving the team a better ball distributor.
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Leeds do play a lot of football, but they hit a long ball as well.
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Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
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Pow, Janir hit a long ball into the blackberry bushes beside the creek.
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Root threw me a fast ball .
a fast/slow etc walker
a touch disappointed/faster/impatient etc
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He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
at a good/rapid/fast etc clip
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He was walking along at a good clip , his eyes idly panning the facades of the brownstone houses.
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Up ahead, a thoroughfare Traffic was going across the intersection at a good clip in both directions.
plenty big/fast/warm etc enough
the best/biggest/fastest etc possible
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Any successful entrepreneurial venture starts with making sure that the entrepreneur is in the best possible mental and physical health.
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But the psychologist was never confident that he had obtained the best possible scores from Nelson.
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For a moment, I imagined the best possible to the worst possible reply.
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Obviously, the purpose is to ensure that the best possible pensions arrangements are reached.
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That way it will have the best possible start in life.
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The additional value farmers receive is the best possible free advice on both inputs and marketing.
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The horrifying news sent the Ciprianos on a nationwide search to find the best possible treatment for their daughter.
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This at once enhances the contribution which the court or parents can make towards reaching the best possible decision in all the circumstances.
the fast lane
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Cars in the fast lane were traveling at over 80 miles an hour.
thick and fast
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At first no one was interested in the job but now applications are coming in thick and fast.
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Rumors flew thick and fast that the government would close the newspaper.
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Rumours flew thick and fast that the company was going to be sold.
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Callers, suitably and sombrely attired, came thick and fast.
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Finally, may reactions to the paper come thick and fast from all quarters!
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Official recognition of the change came thick and fast during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
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The export market has not taken up the slack, so redundancies are coming thick and fast.
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The form for Swindon can only get better; the games are coming thick and fast.
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The invitations came thick and fast.
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The rumours are growing thick and fast as weeds and de Craon must be their sower.
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They are falling thick and fast, some of them upon our dead, and some upon their own...
trouble with a capital T, fast with a capital F etc
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He would need to fast , to recuperate, to change, before he would be ready to take her.
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They fasted for a further 2 hours, after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake.
IV. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
break
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The songs were then sung, and Gandhi drank some orange juice to break the three-week fast .
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After they had broken their fast he gave Aeneas the advice he had come to seek.
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The breaking of the fast , called iftar, usually begins with a snack of dates and milk or water.
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Keyes said he would not break his fast until he was invited to participate in subsequent candidate debates.
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Then, when they break their fast , the men serve the women.
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a one-day fast for charity
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At the end of their fast , the people have a big party to celebrate.
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As almost everyone except himself perfectly understood, these fasts were a ruthless exploitation of the power of his own sanctity.