"quickly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But in each case, the statistics showed, the replacement species were quickly decimated by overfishing or by accidental catches.
- The Maya population of Belize at this time numbered about a quarter of a million, but their ranks were quickly decimated by as much as 90 percent, from the lethal combination of the diseases and greed of the Spanish.
- But as soon as the first group of the 81st Airborne Ranger Battalion landed on Dac Song, they were quickly decimated by North Vietnamese artillery, with the unit suffering losses equivalent to two companies.
- When the disease myxomatosis arrived in Britain, during 1953 from France, the mainland population of rabbits was quickly decimated.
- A Spanish counterattack on Kettle Hill by some 600 infantry was quickly decimated by one of Lt. Parker's Gatling guns recently emplaced on the summit of San Juan Hill, which killed all but forty of the attackers before they had closed to within 250 yards of the Americans on Kettle Hill.
- Both groups were quickly decimated by disease and attacks by settlers in the late 19th century coming from southern Chile and Europe, a great number were from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
- They were quickly decimated and their commanders captured by OPON forces which were led by regional OPON commander Elchin Amiraslanov.
- Much of the garrison was quickly decimated by fevers (probably malaria).
- The natives were quickly decimated by Spanish gunfire.
- To the Editor: It should be clear to our government by now that we are dealing with a barbaric element in Iraq that must be decimated quickly.
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