astonishing speed

collocation in English

meaningsofastonishingandspeed

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astonishing
adjective
uk
/əˈstɒn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us
/əˈstɑː.nɪ.ʃɪŋ/
very ...
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speed
noun
uk
/spiːd/us
/spiːd/
how fast ...
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(Definition ofastonishingandspeedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Now, with anastonishingspeed, the immorality that used to be known to just a few of us is being discovered by most people.
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Some say that the whole character of modern warfare is being changed by electronic warfare capabilities, withastonishingspeed.
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The emergency services reacted to the appalling disaster with impressive andastonishingspeedand efficiency.
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The worlds of telephony, broadcasting, mobile communications and the internet are changing and converging withastonishingspeed.
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The excuses for changing the figures have moved withastonishingspeedover the past fortnight.
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However, other investigations are completed withastonishingspeed.
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In these last six years something which has been built up laboriously year after year in the past has been dissipated at a reallyastonishingspeed.
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Events there have moved withastonishingspeed, but they are the culmination of strains which have built up over decades and there have been indications of such developments.
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More important, she possessed a mind that could cut to the essential of an issue withastonishingspeed.
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To move around, they make short dashes ofastonishingspeed(hence the name), often faster than the human eye can follow.
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These data suggest that a selective sweep occurred as recently as 5,300 to 6,000 years ago, replacing darker skins with light skins atastonishingspeed.
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He walks at anastonishingspeed, as if he is gliding on air.
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Such state switches can occur withastonishingspeedand synchronicity, as though all the members in the group made a unanimous decision at the same moment.
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Yet, after ten thousand generations, a great sage may appear who will know their meaning, and it will still be as though he appeared withastonishingspeed.
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Adams, and calculated the ratherastonishingspeed.
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