lose no time
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A government insider commented: "We take these allegations very seriously and, should they turn out to be true, we'll lose no time in sacking Baroness Warsi."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2012
It read: "This should not have happened and I want to lose no time in offering an unreserved apology."
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2010
The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their recommendations: doctors should take any possible cancer symptoms seriously; a general practitioner who has any suspicion of possible cancer should lose no time in referring the patient to an expert.
From Time Magazine Archive
We asked for a sign from heaven, and the sign came to cut across the open sea to Euboia, and lose no time putting our ills behind us.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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