His climb up the greased pole of the C.I.A.'s leadership was astonishingly rapid.

More's development was astonishingly rapid.

A conservative country whose astonishingly rapid reconstruction after World War II had left many questions unanswered, Germany was convulsed in the 1970's.

"In many regions, we've seen astonishingly rapid change since 1975," he said.

His entire professional life-eight years-has been spent with E-Tech, and he's had astonishingly rapid advancement.

Her rise in the sport was astonishingly rapid.

But the gentleman drew his sword, and used it in such an astonishingly rapid manner that we neither of us could get near him.

His speed translated to an astonishingly rapid 48.3 kilometers an hour (30 m.p.h.) over slightly rolling roads in warm weather.

Son House once told the story to Pete Welding as an explanation of Johnson's astonishingly rapid mastery of the guitar.

The speed of her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.