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VERY FAST
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a relatively short time
Example:
she finished the assignment in no time
Synonyms:
in no time; very fast
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Context examples:
Although these intergalactic winds are thought to be very fast – maybe several hundred kilometers or miles per second – the vast distances involved means this atom sharing would've taken place over billions of years.
(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I was running on, very fast indeed, when my eyes rested on little Em'ly's face, which was bent forward over the table, listening with the deepest attention, her breath held, her blue eyes sparkling like jewels, and the colour mantling in her cheeks.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
However, the horseman got off, took the silver, helped Hans up, gave him the bridle into one hand and the whip into the other, and said, When you want to go very fast, smack your lips loudly together, and cry Jip!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He drove through the park very fast, and they were soon out of sight; and nothing more of them was seen till their return, which did not happen till after the return of all the rest.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Amateur astronomers may contribute more observations, but the asteroid will be very difficult for backyard astronomers to see, as current estimates are that it will reach a visual magnitude of only about 17 at its brightest, and it will be moving very fast across the sky.
(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)
Good master Pelligny, said the landlord, these gentlemen have not gone very fast, and I have a horse in the stable at your disposal, for I would rather have such bloody doings as you threaten outside the four walls of mine auberge.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In that field, Adele, I was walking late one evening about a fortnight since—the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in the orchard meadows; and, as I was tired with raking swaths, I sat down to rest me on a stile; and there I took out a little book and a pencil, and began to write about a misfortune that befell me long ago, and a wish I had for happy days to come: I was writing away very fast, though daylight was fading from the leaf, when something came up the path and stopped two yards off me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I'm going very fast, and he's getting dearer every minute, added Jo to herself, then with a mental shake she entered into the business with an energy that was pleasant to behold.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was a long climb, and they could not go fast; but very fast to Negore they seemed to approach the midway point where top was no less near than bottom.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Mr. Dick made his two hands revolve very fast about each other a great number of times, and then brought them into collision, and rolled them over and over one another, to express confusion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
