The phrase "were quick to adapt" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe how quickly someone or something responded to a change: The students were quick to adapt to the new teaching methods.
In most regressions, the coefficients for men are larger in absolute value than they are for women, suggesting that relative to women, men responded more to CLM changes and were quicker to adapt to the repeal of CLM.
32 The inequality gap between practices in deprived and affluent areas has been found to be diminishing over time, with the former catching up with the latter, 23 although there is evidence that the gap had been exaggerated with the introduction of the financial scheme, since more affluent practices were quicker to adapt and maximise their QOF performance.
And colleagues say he was quick to adapt to each client, an essential skill.
Having already scored 25 Premier League goals since a switch from Vitesse to Swansea, the Ivorian was quick to adapt to the physical nature of the English game.
And it seems the street workers, or lucciole – fireflies – as the Italian press calls them, have been quick to adapt to the authorities' new interest in their business.
From the presentation of her first collection in 1927 to the closing of her salon in 1954, the Italian-born designer "was quick to adapt to new trends and seemingly fearless when it came to trying new things".
So while the potato growers shudder before the carbophobic tide, the chip makers have been quick to adapt, by dialing down the spud content in their recipes and cranking up the soy.
"Fraudsters are quick to adapt to new technologies to exploit them for unlawful purposes," Robert B. Kaplan, co-head of the asset management unit of the S.E.C's enforcement division, said in a statement.
As retailers, Ms. Lim and Mr. Leon have been quick to adapt to the market — by creating a wholesale division, by collaborating with labels like Rodarte and Maison Martin Margiela, by teaming up with Chloë Sevigny for yet another label.
There is no set strategy [for individual institutions] that links to the general messaging [of the sector]." He described how some colleges are quick to adapt to societal and market changes whereas others prefer to take a more traditional approach to FE.
