Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] quickly [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 2 | The appliance manufacturers , the frozen food kings , the canners and food merchants exploited to the hilt the female desire to get out of the kitchen just as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |
| 4 | A position which provides shelter from wind is almost more important than one which receives all the sun available ; wind is excessively drying and moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized , along with the essential oils , relatively " heavy " though they are . |
| 5 | Glaxo has since delayed the launch to await product approvals but it 's a massive project and will take out rigid packaging business forward very quickly when it comes on stream — probably late this year . |
| 6 | His legs are so long that when the rear tyre breaks away he can pick the bike up so quickly because he 's already on it . |
| 7 | Fluid balance is an extremely delicate indicator of health and as such , can warn of serious problems much more quickly than pulse and respiratory rates . |
| 8 | As the authors state , such letters are also of benefit to hospital clinicians , who can focus on the problems much more quickly than by scanning notes ( often untidy or illegible ) plus related correspondence and results . |
| 9 | I book the late meals at 1430 hours for everyone , and organise the loading of fifty pallets for the exercise — working through lunch to get the vessel away as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 11 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |
| 12 | I know these are increasing at a very rapid rate almost as quickly as the new legislations develop and keeping accurate paper records is becoming increasingly more difficult . |
| 13 | We are aware now that you 're operating without a license and it 's up to you to get that license here as quickly as possible ! |
| 14 | ‘ We have had 12 months intense activity and TIE has enabled us to expand our operation much more quickly than envisaged , ’ said Les Harbron , the company 's project co-ordinator . |
| 15 | The they certainly moved back to radicalization much more quickly than Mao had , had expected |
| 16 | She grew tired of her less-than-suitable young man just as quickly as her parents had predicted and then in no time at all fell in love with and married the elder son of a duke . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 18 | We are aware now that you 're operating without a licence and it 's up to you to get that licence here as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | There is substantial evidence that work groups detect and remedy mistakes much more quickly than designated ‘ inspectors ’ , saving considerable rework and scrappage . |
| 20 | People could send telegrams , telephone each other , and transmit information much more quickly than ever before . |
| 21 | He worked off some of the anger by berating Tom Hanks for not having Vulcan ready more quickly when he ordered that the horse be prepared for a ride . |
| 22 | Carling revealed that Thursday 's secret training session involved the reserve three-quarters ‘ pushing up remarkably quickly so we could work on ways to counter the way the Boks defend ’ . |
| 23 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 24 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 25 | The two selection regimes had the expected effects on host fitness : infected bacteria in the vertically transmitted lines increased in density much more quickly than those in the lines where horizontal transmission could occur . |
| 26 | But generally , the deadline achieved its purpose and we were able to despatch certificates to students much more quickly than in the past . ’ |
| 27 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 28 | " I guess we ought to get the ox carts here as quickly as possible , Monsieur Devraux , to take our bull and the calf back for skinning . |
| 29 | Once returns began to grow and disillusion amongst consumers had set in , the new players began to withdraw from the market almost as quickly as they had entered . |
| 30 | Female executives looking for salaries of around £35,000 are finding jobs twice as quickly as their male counterparts . |