The gold seekers quickly learned that most of the valuable areas of land had already been claimed by others.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

He had more money than he needed and it was burning a hole in his pocket so he spent it quickly.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

As both the North and South were learning quickly, the Civil War was becoming more costly than anyone had imagined.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Other people quickly traveled to the area of the great Klondike River where the three had made the discovery.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

When Mister Wesley was sure he had found something new, he quickly contacted professional astronomers about his find.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Pampa was known as a "boom town" because it had grown quickly after oil was discovered nearby.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

The magnolias die so quickly when you bring them in, so I had to draw it quickly before I started in on the stitching."

VOA: special.2009.11.04

And it was changing quickly. Before eighteen sixty, the United States had an agricultural economy.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

McClellan had planned to move quickly to Yorktown, then push on to Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

They had not expected to win so much,so quickly.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He had to work quickly and exactly.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Her decision had been shown quickly.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

We quickly learned that we had overestimated everything: the ability of our vehicle, the distance we could travel in a day, the amount of money we needed and our desire to be away from home.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

There are two mountains in the distance. The light was changing quickly, so I had to react so quickly.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

A previous study by Clayton's lab had shown that, as a young finch first learns how to sing, hundreds of genes in its brain quickly respond, producing more or less protein.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Just weeks ago he was a novice opposition candidate for Parliament with little recognition outside the district, which had been held by his mother Varun Gandhi quickly rocketed into the national spotlight after his recent speeches aired on national television appearing to show him mocking and threatening Muslims.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"Because it's happening so quickly, they haven't had time to adapt and change, if you imagine a climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years, bears and other animals would gradually move into other habitats,but because this is going to happen over decades, it will be too fast for them to adapt and look for other food sources,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13