Example sentences of "[verb] a few seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast painted between the intense , vibrant , imaginative life of the child outside school ( where at the end of the day the eight-year-old collapses into deep sleep a few seconds after rushing round ‘ being a lorry ’ ) and the drab , pointless monotony of his classes is as striking as it is disturbing . |
| 2 | Without it , my version occupied a few seconds under fifteen minutes . |
| 3 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 4 | But French TV pioneered the national exit poll , and the ‘ results ’ were revealed a few seconds after the last ballot slip was boxed . |
| 5 | Retention alone is not sufficient for comprehension , but without this mental black-board will be difficult to relate the meaning of one word to the meaning of another seen a few seconds later . |
| 6 | Apply it over the boards with a roller , wait a few seconds , then wipe it up with a clean cloth . |
| 7 | Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop , etc. would n't go amiss . |
| 8 | Sometimes the image would only remain a few seconds . |
| 9 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 10 | When she left the branch she actually locked him in , using a special procedure which takes a few seconds . ’ |
| 11 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 12 | Installation is n't difficult — screwing the battery onto the board takes a few seconds . |
| 13 | this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident . |
| 14 | The IBA has been particularly active in relation to programmes about Northern Ireland , and its interference has ranged from banning an entire programme ( eg a This Week report about RUC brutality ) to cutting provocative scenes lasting a few seconds ( such as pictures of flowers on an IRA grave ) . |
| 15 | He increased his speed until he was running flat out , buying a few seconds of precious time to allow him to find a good defence position . |
| 16 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
| 17 | About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road . |
| 18 | There was no answer , only silence again , followed a few seconds later by the crashing sound . |
| 19 | Countdown Mine — Explodes a few seconds after treading on it . |
| 20 | Facet augmentation returned a few seconds later . |
| 21 | WHY , in the age of the microchip , does it take a few seconds to phone Australia but four full working days for a cheque to clear ? |
| 22 | Large volumes of small files may take a few seconds to be processed by the HC VERIFIER . |
| 23 | The main reason why people act in this manner is to save a few seconds — a high price to pay . |
| 24 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 25 | It is a good technique to allow a few seconds at the beginning of a shot before the pan movement actually starts to allow the audience time to take in the scene . |
| 26 | Lindsey made her way to the office , taking a few seconds to run a comb through her hair before the door opened and the Hammonds came hesitantly into the room . |
| 27 | Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it . |
| 28 | It took a few seconds after he regained consciousness to realize that he was blindfolded . |
| 29 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
| 30 | What she saw brought her upright , but , still foggy with sleep , she took a few seconds to interpret what she saw . |