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

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1 It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly .
2 So much done so quickly and then nothing .
3 Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex .
4 During a recession , the public can not be blamed for watching pennies in the hope that pounds wo n't disappear quite so quickly , but most Britons eat to live rather than living to eat , no matter how the economy is doing .
5 But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly .
6 If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road .
7 ‘ Thank you for coming so quickly , ’ I said to the man as I wrote a cheque .
8 That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports .
9 MacCabe and company had assumed that their location work would prove more than adequate to meet the quota , but then found that they were obliged to do all their processing and post-production work in Hamburg , too -a doubly inconvenient requirement since the local labs are not used to working nearly so quickly as their counterparts in London .
10 Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen .
11 He thought it wrong to take him out of Cambridge so quickly .
12 But men … they go downhill so quickly . ’
13 ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said .
14 The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ .
15 ‘ No style of building , ’ wrote Mr Ould , Hill Bark 's architect , of half-timbering , ‘ will harmonize so quickly and completely with its surroundings … and none continues to live on such terms of good fellowship with other materials , whether rosy brickwork , grey lichen covered masonry , or pearly flag-slates . ’
16 As to the one I sent in before , it was written so quickly , that it could not be good .
17 Jane was no great cook , and did n't even enjoy it , but she had brought up a family of four , so quickly got her bearings in the kitchen , which was off the main circular room .
18 How could it go so quickly ?
19 ‘ You switch regiments so quickly , Peregrine — Scots Guards to Grenadiers . ’
20 The grand symphony of the song has turned so quickly into a raucous and bitter cacophony , drowning all sound of the truth .
21 Noah 's family so quickly spoiled the new creation that God then made , and after Babel God began a third time with the calling of Abraham .
22 I take modelling for what it is ; I made money I 'd never otherwise have made so quickly , and I 'm still young enough to do something else .
23 I could n't work out how you got there so quickly .
24 You must never diet so quickly that you lose the muscle tissue that gives your body its shape , firmness , and definition .
25 It is a difficult journey , particularly when one is misled by sudden exultations which seem to offer an almost magical release but so quickly dissipate into even worse depression and remorse .
26 Sometimes the losses that we experience come so quickly one after the other that they become almost indistinguishable .
27 As the ground had dried out it was also a surprise that he should go so quickly on it and he just tired at Valentine 's second-time .
28 There is no reason to be sitting in bed , but I never thought I 'd be on the go so quickly .
29 ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner .
30 Only Judi could get to her so quickly , and only this discussion could push her over the edge .
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