Sentence examples for had been fastest from inspiring English sources
When the housing market collapsed, so did growth, particularly where growth had been fastest, in the outer suburbs, or exurbs.
Marquez, 21, had been fastest in all four practice sessions and qualifying, and he looked set to score his 11th win of the season.
The Russian, who had been fastest in the wet on Friday afternoon, got out of shape exiting Turn 10, a fast right-hander taken at more than 250kmh.
Viktoria Rebensburg and Kathrin Hölzl of Germany, the Olympic and world champions, had been fastest in the first run but were hampered by the strong winds that forced the start of the afternoon run to be delayed by an hour.
Out, too, at a stroke went Britain's first possibilities - by that point a certainty, although China had been fastest in both heats so on paper silver looked more likely for GB than gold - of a first Olympic medal in the first track competition final of the 2012 Games.
He had been fastest in the first and second parts.
He had been fasting almost weekly through the summer for an end to the sulfurous assault.
She tells The Washington Post that McCarrick told her he had been fasting and may have been dehydrated.
CBC's The Fifth Estate reported Kurdi's family's application had been fast-tracked.
Patients had been fasted for 24 h prior to surgery.
All patients had been fasting for at least three hours before admission to the ICU.
