The latter spent "only" 55 days at sea, an almost unbelievably swift time given that they enjoyed none of the technological aids available to present-day adventurers.
He has had famous run-ins with Andrei Kanchelskis and Jaap Stam, which saw them run out of club and country in swift time.
California horses ring up swift times on that rubberized asphalt and then spin their wheels on the Churchill Downs surface". That said, California horses came, didn't spin their wheels and conquered.
In a speech following General Barakat's funeral, Mr Sisi declared: "We will make amendments to laws so we can achieve justice in the swiftest possible time".
Fowler wrote to the chief of the Atomic Energy Commission, Glenn Seaborg, "Because of the implications of Dr. Sachs's proposal for, among other things, the present vexed international monetary situation, I am extremely anxious that [an] assessment be made and in the swiftest possible time".
Today's medical advances mean that death is easier to put off than it was in Swift's time.
In Swift's time, European explorers had only skirted around the coastal edges of Africa and its interior remained, to all intents and purposes, a mystery.
But the change is especially swift this time because Congress and the White House are controlled by the Republicans for the first time in nearly half a century.
When Holloway won promotion with Blackpool it was 81 days before he strengthened his squad but he will need to be a lot swifter this time.
It's a remarkably swift turnaround time for the security industry — many researchers will allow companies 90 days to patch a vulnerability before going public with their findings.
The fire service couldn't do anything; they couldn't go in until the second engine had arrived". "I'm sure if there had been a second engine here sooner we would have had a different outcome". Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said it had tried to maintain a swift response time for the first emergency crew to reach a house fire.
