breakneck pace

collocation in English

meaningsofbreakneckandpace

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breakneck
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈbreɪk.nek/us
/ˈbreɪk.nek/
carelessly fast ...
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pace
noun
uk
/peɪs/us
/peɪs/
the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens ...
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(Definition ofbreakneckandpacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Previous strategies to harmonise technical regulations have not been able to keep up with thebreakneckpaceof developments in the air transport sector.
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We are working atbreakneckpace, month in month out.
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We are heading atbreakneckpacefor about 2 million unemployed.
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In its pioneer version, the horah was done at a whirling,breakneckpace.
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Large portions of the book are entirely left out of this movie, which proceeds atbreakneckpace.
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In its pioneer version, the hora was done at a whirling,breakneckpace.
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Or usually did, anywayshe'd occasionally quit or be fired, as the plotline, which ran atbreakneckpaceand didn't always make perfect sense, required.
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We do nt play with thatbreakneckpace.
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Most of his books and stories were produced at abreakneckpace, which sometimes amounted to 12,000 words in one weekend.
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The problem is the almostbreakneckpacewhich requires that all emotional nuance be jettisoned in favor of showing the range of the personalities.
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Oil production continued at abreakneckpacethroughout the early 1930s, with more than 1,100 producing oil wells within city limits at the height of the boom.
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