In 1965, when the 70mph limit was set, few vehicles were able to maintain a faster speed.
An aircraft flying at a faster speed consumes more fuel per distance than the same aircraft flying at a slower speed.
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In film after film, we have to wait without words for a character to make up his mind to do something, and even at a faster speed the wait can seem interminable.
Manannan will be the largest vessel of her type in the Irish Sea with a faster cruising speed than other ferries.
They do that with a conventional camera by opening up the aperture of the lens and selecting a faster shutter speed.
Hutchinson currently holds the lap record for the Grand Prix itself at 133.23mph, although Manxman Conor Cummins recorded a slightly faster speed in last year's Dundrod 150 Superbike race.
But Yeovil, an area of similar population size with a faster average broadband speed, clocks up a monthly average of 4, 259 downloads.
Verizon initially said in a FAQ that it would slow users' access speed down to 256Kbps, "a little faster than typical dial-up speed" for up to three days - but later deleted the information from its site.
The biggest bonus, though, may come from a lower cost and faster speed of manufacturing.
The G standard has a faster maximum data transmission speed--54 megabits per second--than the B standard, which topped out at 10 MB per second.
Chipmakers have been known to reset faster chips to a slower speed and install them in place of a prior-generation chip that's out of stock.
Apparently, this meant opening the back door to a host of ghouls and goblins who pay extra for the right to co-locate their servers and see the orders of the public in a speed that is somehow faster than real-time.
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In 2010, a cyclist descending a steep hill far faster than the posted speed limit outside Berkeley, Calif.
What is more, high-speed cable modems are a faster and cheaper alternative.
While the slightly faster clock speed may be a nice bragging right, at the end of the day Atom N470-based netbooks are still, well, netbooks.
Yet it will be able to accelerate to 100kph in under 3.2 seconds (a second faster than a Porsche GT3 with a combustion engine) and will have a top speed of more than 320kph.
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Bentley has said the W12 engine could produce 600bhp and 800 Nm of torque with a top speed and 0-60mph time faster than any SUV on the market today.
Mr. ARMSTRONG: If only there was a way to make that happen faster, to speed up- -because the last thing you want to do is watch your money on its way.
By making rods lighter and stiffer, the new material yielded a faster "action"--the bend and speed generated by the rod.
They also give the boat a top speed of 25 knots, eight knots faster than the current boat at Montrose.
If tests go as planned, it will be the first plane ever to fly faster than the speed of sound on a fuel mix that is half biomass.
I'm not saying he is the fastest man and will win world championships automatically as a result because speed is only one part of it - but on a lap, that man can ride faster than anyone.
It's home to museums, concert halls and music venues such as the intimate Belly Up where shows often sell out faster than an expert skier can speed down a bunny slope.
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What we're talking about here -- the speed of light --is a million times faster, and is opening the door to a complete rethinking of what we mean by, and can do with, photography.
Models configured with an ultra-fast SSD flash drive give you ultra-speed access to files around ten times faster than a standard hard disk drive.
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That gravitational map may turn out to be a key to determine whether or not neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.
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The laptop-sized PS3 will boast a high-speed internet connection and microprocessor that is several times faster than Intel's Pentium 4 chip used in PCs and game consoles.
He explained how the speed of information continues to get faster and as a result, investors are able to access their account performance every minute of the day.
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