Examples of using "успев" in a sentence and their english translations:
They started fighting as soon as they arrived.
Only the other day in a railway accident, without the time to send out a mayday, many people lost their lives.
Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane crash before he could travel in space a second time.
Judit took the rook and led it to a7, but just before releasing it she changed her mind and left it at a3.
When Tom has trouble sleeping, he starts counting stoats. That quickly brings him into a peaceful mood, and he is fast asleep before he could count the stoats to fifty.