adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
move fast/quickly/swiftly
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You’ll have to move fast if you want to get a place on the course.
move quickly/slowly/steadily etc
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The plane moved slowly along the runway, then stopped.
quickly
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The matter was resolved quite quickly.
quickly/rapidly gain sth
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Adam quickly gained the respect of the soldiers under his command.
rapidly/quickly
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The market for phones is changing rapidly.
rapidly/quickly/fast
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House prices rose rapidly last year.
react quickly/swiftly
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The goalkeeper had to react quickly.
spread rapidly/quickly
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The fire spread rapidly, consuming many of the houses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
act
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Mr Keating is being urged to act quickly to avoid years of uncertainty while new claims are fought through the courts.
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Democrats are pushing Woods and other Republicans to act quickly .
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But police say they had to act quickly to protect staff and shoppers.
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The group said it was acting quickly because it feared that the new law would have an immediate effect on the Internet.
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He hadn't acted quickly enough.
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Major airlines always act quickly to nip back.
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They have to plan and act quickly to prevent any spread to other animals or humans.
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Marquez, realizing he must act quickly , marched toward Queretaro.
add
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He added quickly: Because I don't, you know.
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But it made no better sense, Johnson quickly added , for the Corps to build the dam instead.
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But if we are speaking as Christians, we must quickly add that this situation is a problem only because of the Fall.
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Eating out three times a week could quickly add up to thousands of dollars a year.
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He added quickly that there was no hurry any more.
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Chris Meredith, 28, of Selma, Ala., quickly added .
become
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The maxima quickly became the minima.
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Love quickly became an important figure in the business world.
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They meet in a daily group therapy session, and very quickly become lovers.
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People eating contaminated whipped cream quickly become ill with stomach pains.
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Learning, like training, quickly becomes obsolete.
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Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness.
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But some diseases remain fatal, while others quickly become almost harmless.
change
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But things change quickly at Ferrari and, in 1990, he found himself swimming against the political tide.
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Jim changed quickly , took out some clothes for the next morning, then wolfed down his dinner.
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But things change quickly in the fashion world.
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Presumably on many issues, and in many situations, attitudes in everyday life do change , and may change quickly .
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Larson arrived early to unlock the front door and changed quickly into his swimming trunks.
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Seconds of confusion quickly change to clear-cut orders and a follow-up.
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For-like the weather-things change quickly for entrepreneurs.
come
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A pattern of trouble quickly came to be associated with the street gangs.
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Marcus Camby bruised a knee in Hawaii, but quickly came back against Syracuse to score 20 points and secure 11 rebounds.
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This port, founded as late as 1 130, very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town.
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The about-face came quickly , though not easily and not without controversy.
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Come quickly - don't disappoint me!
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Cephalus, however, had quickly come to his senses and realized the poor part he had played.
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Here, second use came quickly , a matter of hours rather than days or months.
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When the engine turned over, he came quickly down the front steps and climbed in beside them.
find
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The journey is not a long one, a few centimetres only, and the babies quickly find a teat.
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He quickly found three more foolish people.
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I quickly found out that knowing the right answer was much easier than selling it.
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I quickly found that mountain bikes don't particularly spare you the bumps.
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Favorite recipes can be typed into the computer, organized by category and found quickly through a search function.
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The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere.
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I also quickly found out that the city was full of churches.
follow
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A dishonoured Note is normally quickly followed by insolvency proceedings.
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The increases in quality, productivity, and profitability have followed quickly , as case after case proves they do.
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Minnesota let parents and students choose their public schools-as in East Harlem-and six other states quickly followed suit.
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They were quickly followed by her damp jumper.
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If she makes a mistake and embarrasses you, an apology will follow quickly .
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Dad pushed Mum indoors and Frankie and I followed quickly .
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Streams can get high and swift very quickly following heavy rains.
learn
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He learned quickly , soaking up both knowledge and art as a cloth soaks up clear water.
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She quickly learned that her hope of finding a job and renting a place of her own was foolish.
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Washington, which has had notification laws on the books for seven years, quickly learned from the arson experience.
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They learn quickly , and keep trying even in confusing and conflicting circumstances. 2.
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There is no penalty for being impertinent to supervisors who, in turn, quickly learn to keep their advice to themselves.
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She learned quickly and eagerly and soon acquired sufficient know-how to join Anne Mowbray in the small schoolroom.
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But we quickly learned that they were not.
move
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The first print run of 6,000 sold out and a second of 4,000 is moving quickly .
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People stopped and then quickly moved on.
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If speed is lost, quickly move forwards on the board.
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But fear not -- things move quickly .
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A rational Congress would move quickly to close the gun show loophole.
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He moved quickly almost charging in the door, and slid into a chair opposite me.
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He moved quickly to the lounge, and stood behind the door, listening for the key to go in the latch.
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Novice players should be able to move quickly through the lessons and, from there, move on to more challenging material.
react
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Get used to being grabbed and reacting quickly .
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You need to be alert and react quickly .
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Sometime genuinely strong potential acquirers will not enter into such a process because they can not react quickly .
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But Powergen bosses have reacted quickly to the new council demands.
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He also reacted quickly to save after both McLoughlin and Clarke had seen efforts cleared off the line by Houghton.
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But private investors reacted quickly by buying equities in the small hours of yesterday morning.
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Sunderland reacted quickly to the set-back, with club record singing Don Goodman calmly picking his spot to equalise a minute later.
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The flow of adrenalin can help the mind to react quickly in a given situation.
respond
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Some patients respond quickly and satisfactorily to treatment.
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When that happens and some one falls in a channel, the city and county fire department swift-water rescue teams must respond quickly .
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Trained to respond quickly to danger.
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Yet these Cowboys respond quickly to the question of where San Francisco ranks on their list of concerns.
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When intruders appear, the chicks respond quickly to their parents' calls by crouching or running to shelter.
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Visalia had adopted a radically new budget system, which allowed managers to respond quickly as circumstances changed.
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Lenny responds quickly to requests made of him both by campers and counsellors alike.
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Politically, this meant that individuals could gain immediate knowledge of events anywhere in the world and could respond quickly .
say
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It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance.
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I quickly said , thankful for the new subject matter.
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Simon said quickly , but before he could open the door, Tony was inside.
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Lettie said quickly , taking the can of beer Patrice offered to her.
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Miguel said quickly , yanking Cristalena away by the hand.
spread
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It spreads quickly once inside the victim and is soon being circulated in the bloodstream.
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Although news of her work in Motijhil had spread quickly , they had almost no financial means.
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During the Pleistocene, Stone Age man appeared on the scene in Java and spread quickly .
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The idea spread quickly to other cities.
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Juliet felt a strange sort of throbbing inside her, that quickly spread like tentacles of fever through her body.
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The rumor quickly spread among the black soldiers that other blacks were being brutalized by the police.
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The industrial action quickly spread to transport and municipal workers and workers on tea, sugar and tobacco plantations.
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The controversy quickly spread beyond the pages of the Reader.
turn
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He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him.
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Next came reddish-brown dry rot that turned quickly into smelly slime.
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Willie turned quickly away and walked out of the door, his ears smarting.
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A case against the Clintons built on the McDougals and Hale would quickly turn to rubble.
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He turned quickly , his eyes wide and anxious.
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They turn quickly to the page she wants.
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As Sophie and Giles came through the doorway, Robert turned quickly away, leaving Dawn alone.
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When the safety inspector comes to the door, the machine is quickly turned on.
walk
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Spotting what he was after, he walked quickly over to the object and picked it up.
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He walked quickly to the glass door of the bank.
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She walked quickly up William Street, and waited for a break in the traffic before crossing South Street.
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He walked quickly to the library after lunch and looked up one of the Violet books.
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He walked quickly , his head full of morbid thoughts.
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Then they stood up and began to walk quickly .
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I could see a lot of people walking quickly .
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She walked quickly and hardly spoke to him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as soon/quickly/much etc as possible
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A condition to be rectified as quickly as possible if she didn't want to be labelled a freak, or worse.
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Archibol was committed to relieving himself of the distraction of Isaac as quickly as possible .
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Experts do recommend that parents also put their babies in other positions as much as possible while awake.
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Preston avoided travelling by tube as much as possible , but sometimes it was forced upon him.
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Smokers, stop as quickly as possible and do not smoke in the presence of others.
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The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible .
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The Super Bowl was an outgrowth of the desire to take advantage of the merger as quickly as possible .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Quickly fry the onions, then add the meat.
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Alex was knocked to the ground, but he quickly recovered.
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Don't eat too quickly .
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Fortunately, India quickly returned to calm after Mrs Gandhi's death.
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It's important to realize how quickly this disease can spread.
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Let me just talk to Eve quickly before we go.
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She undressed quickly and got into bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Farquhar, unhurt apart from a huge lump on his head, bandaged Lachlan's wounds quickly before joining him at the oars.
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It reads quickly , like the Diaz story, a simple, straight forward pleasure.
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The California Department of Forestry said the crash sparked a small brush fire that was quickly extinguished.
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The water in the aquarium will quickly equal the ambient air temperature.
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Then she saw him look around quickly , but in all the wrong directions.
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This is usually tucked away under a fold of skin but it can be quickly erected and used as a weapon.
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We were asked only to make the bomb, devise it and construct it as quickly as possible.
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Yeast cells struggling to survive under suffocating conditions quickly excrete the ethanol fragments because they are basically poisonous.