Example sentences of "[noun sg] as quickly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans hoped that it would come into force as quickly as possible , allowing German military forces to be recruited . |
| 2 | Fig 27 As you pass through the eye of the wind you need to transfer both back hand and foot to the mast and get round to the other side as quickly as possible ; a small jump is often the best way . |
| 3 | It 's best to remove the key as quickly as possible , re-engaging it as necessary . |
| 4 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 5 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 6 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 7 | Exactly like the Philistines of Ashdod , Gath and Ekron , its people decide to get rid of the ark as quickly as they can . |
| 8 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 10 | Kenjutsu was not a sport : it was simply the art of killing an enemy as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | The only thing to do now was finish the plane and get back to Gibbet Hall as quickly as he could . |
| 12 | ‘ Now , Sir Henry , I agree that you should go to Baskerville Hall as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | Conditions are jolly hot there , and they 're going to have to get used to that quite quickly , the big thing is to get them through and out into the desert as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | In my experience , young people in a family have been directed to go and conceive a child as quickly as possible because a dying person wants to see a grandchild to ‘ know that his name will live on before he dies , . |
| 15 | For those who are made redundant , the best advice is to try to get back into work as quickly as possible — the first three months is a vital period . |
| 16 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 17 | ‘ We started off by concentrating on hardback fiction and mass market paperbacks because we wanted to build a paperback backlist as quickly as possible to get regular sales going through each month . |
| 18 | Unable to return to your sport as quickly as you would like ? |
| 19 | It informs Flashman of the dire consequences of the club 's financial predicament , recommending that the controversial chairman sells out to a consortium as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | I wanted to get away from the scene as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 21 | Eastwood admitted : ‘ I was upset at missing out in the World Cup final and really do want to get back on to the international scene as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | Make sure you know exactly what to do in the way of first aid and that you can summon medical or other help as quickly as possible should it be needed . |
| 23 | Another reason may have been the desire to end the war as quickly as possible , better achieved perhaps by financing one side rather than both . |
| 24 | We should kill the poll tax as quickly as we can . |
| 25 | How does the hon. Gentleman reconcile this carefully rehearsed diatribe with his oft-stated desire to abolish the poll tax as quickly as possible ? |
| 26 | The move as quickly as you can to the nearest place where there are other people such as a bar , a restaurant or a house with lights on . |
| 27 | In the event , however , the groups which came to power in most of these countries determined to restore capitalism as quickly as possible , encouraged in this course by the swarms of ‘ free-marketeers ’ who descended upon them , notably from the US , Britain , Germany and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 28 | In any case , resolved to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion as quickly as possible , I proceeded further into the library , and stopping a little way from Mr Cardinal 's writing desk , gave a cough . |
| 29 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 30 | We will send written confirmation of your booking as quickly as possible . |