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