From that point on his progress was swift.
The cancer, I'd heard, was on his esophagus, and its progress was swift and merciless.
With a lead of 171 there was no great pressure on the Australia batsmen but their progress, though swift, was not entirely serene on a surface which still assisted skilful new-ball bowlers.
His progress was swift: by September Tang troops had begun to establish a ring of fortified camps around the city, while detachments had penetrated further south, east and north, triggering the defection of most of central Henan from Wang's control.
Yet once they confronted their own limiting beliefs about the "specialness" of their business, and gave a hard look at ways to progressively wean the business off of its reliance on themselves, that made swift progress.
That gives the feeling of swift progress.
Also her impatience accounts for her swift progress.
It's been good to see such swift progress.
This wasn't walking, exactly, but it was progress, of a swift and baleful kind.
