Liberal Democrat MP David Heath said Defra officials are lobbying the EU to try to speed up the approval process.

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Antsy anglers go to great lengths to try to speed up delivery.

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Ford, Renault-Nissan and Daimler have agreed to jointly develop a fuel cell system to try to speed up the availability of zero-emission vehicles.

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If I did it all again I would try to speed up the development phase and waste less time agonizing over glitches and headaches.

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The LEP, made up of local authorities and business organisations, said it would try to speed up and increase the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' "Bridging the Gap" funding for the region.

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Device makers try to speed things up by anticipating what we are trying to write and offering solutions, often with vexing or comical results (obscene examples abound at Damn You, Autocorrect).

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Then plan for your product to be used in technology at that date: Be careful not to get there too early or try to force the market to speed up, because your company will die.

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There are also free steps you can take to try and speed up your current phone.

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Burning 3, 785 liters of fuel an hour, they turn left and right and speed up and slow down as air traffic controllers on the ground try to arrange them like a conga line for their final approach to the runway.

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