Example sentences of "[noun] so rapidly [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 2 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 3 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 4 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 5 | Under normal atmospheric pressure gases attenuate sound so rapidly that they are useless as a coupling medium for acoustic microscopes , but under pressure the picture rapidly improves . |
| 6 | In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors . |
| 7 | The later Mariner 10 probe , launched in 1974 , confirmed that the dense sulphuric clouds moved across the sky so rapidly as to create violent storms at the surface . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered . |
| 9 | She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word . |
| 10 | Another possibility is that ischaemia progresses to ulceration so rapidly that it is unlikely to be observed in isolation . |
| 11 | People found that their savings became completely worthless and that salaries , once received , declined in value so rapidly that workers became desperate to convert currency into goods as soon as they could . |