The peroqua rapidly approached, and was soon close to the beach; the sail was lowered, and she was backed in through the surf.

I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day.

The intelligence product from this series of meetings between the Bunteresque MI5 man and Gutteridge was speedily disseminated throughout Whitehall.

n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million