Example sentences of "move [adv] quickly as " in BNC.

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1 He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot .
2 The other five were well aware of the fragility of the Fourth Republic , especially after the 1956 French election , and fearing that the EEC might not happen with a different government in power in Paris , were keen to get things moving as quickly as possible .
3 They 'd served their purpose , as a handwritten note pushed through the door on the Saturday afternoon had shown ; Mr Sampson — Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you .
4 I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want .
5 We will , of course , move as quickly as possible , but it is most unlikely that my right hon. and learned Friend will be in a position to make the first pay and conditions order under the new Act immediately upon the expiry of the 1987 Act on 31 March 1992 .
6 Teachers felt that it was m appropriate to help pupils move as quickly as possible from purposes to information , with emphasis on reading and note making skill that stage .
7 The County Council 's view has always been , before you face that hurdle , let's agree or get the principle accepted and then we move as quickly as we possible er as we possibly can towards a preferred erm location .
8 As you start , therefore , concentrate on keeping the board level and getting it to move as quickly as possible .
9 Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons .
10 Jim Gear , the councillor for the island , urged the council to move as quickly as possible on the project : ‘ I do n't know how much more the economy can stand . ’
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