Example sentences of "quickly as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 2 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 3 | Sheringham crossed low towards the unmarked Clough but the opening disappeared as quickly as it appeared , Schmeichel diving bravely to whip away the ball . |
| 4 | Then the anger subsides , as quickly as it flared . |
| 5 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 6 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 7 | The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment . |
| 8 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 9 | He hesitated , his anger subsiding quickly as it always did , and leaving him feeling exhausted . |
| 10 | The plant died off almost as quickly as it grew . |
| 11 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 12 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 13 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 14 | As it became clear that the Bolsheviks were prepared to make peace on terms which fully restored Polish territorial integrity , the wave of anti-war feeling subsided as quickly as it had appeared . |
| 15 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 16 | Ministers will meet on the day the Oxford Economic Forecasting group warned the Chancellor against relaxing interest rates too quickly as it would ‘ store up problems for the future ’ . |
| 17 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 18 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 19 | This one , however , was to be far more personally taxing for Mrs Whitehouse , for the apparent consensus of opinion that surrounded her campaign against Thorsen evaporated as quickly as it had developed . |
| 20 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 21 | In the field of New Testament studies , it is as if each new discovery , each new assertion , is swallowed up as quickly as it can be made . |
| 22 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |
| 23 | His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 . |
| 24 | There the nectar does not evaporate as quickly as it would if it were in a more exposed position . |
| 25 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 26 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 27 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 28 | The whistling of the wind was low , disappearing as quickly as it came , ruffling her hair . |
| 29 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 30 | Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them . |