Example sentences of "[adj] seconds [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 2 | Thromboxane A 2 has a half-life of 30 seconds at body temperature and degrades spontaneously to the stable metabolite thromboxane B 2 ( Hamberg et al , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | Then pick up the pace to within 20 to 30 seconds per mile of your 10K race pace and hold that for seven minutes . |
| 4 | He finished sixth in yesterday 's stage eleven , 86 miles from Liverpool 's Kings Dock to Salford Quays , as 76 riders came within 30 seconds of winner Jacek Minckiewicz of Poland . |
| 5 | This increase in endogenous oxytocin could theoretically cause uterine contraction and excessive transfusion within 30 seconds of delivery . |
| 6 | For example , 30 seconds of production music on a video for showing to a non fee-paying audience ( ie. your average company video ) would cost £15 — somewhat less than £40,000 ! |
| 7 | Colin Allister set up both goals , the first in 14 minutes converted by McGladdery , and the second just 30 seconds from time by schoolboy Lee Tumilty . |
| 8 | All stretches should be gradual and held for a period of 30 seconds before release . |
| 9 | The pain was n't so bad , it was the breathlessness , using all his energy to suck another few seconds of life from a chest that seemed to be wrapped in rusty iron bands . |
| 10 | speed of execution — 100 years in the life of a watershed can be simulated in a few seconds of computer time , and |
| 11 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 12 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 13 | It was certainly slow , but then computers somehow nowadays can take months to turn out a few seconds of screen time . |
| 14 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 15 | The rig change is done at the very end of the turn which will involve a few seconds of clew first sailing |
| 16 | Everything was apparently under control until the last few seconds of flight and he was so busy trying to sort it out that fear had no time to grow . |
| 17 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 18 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 19 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 20 | Thirteen and a half seconds after ignition , the booster motor falls away , and half a second later the jet engine starts propelling the missile for the rest of its flight . |
| 21 | The fainter component is of magnitude 4.2 , and as the separation is 376 seconds of arc the pair can be split with the naked eye ; of course binoculars show it well . |
| 22 | A special feature of this part of the programme was that it regularly included a section with about six brief items , averaging 20–30 seconds in duration , including sound bites of 10–20 seconds . |
| 23 | There 's also a Smart CPU mode , which turns the processor speed down from 20MHz to 2.5MHz after 12 seconds of inactivity , and turns it back up when you begin to use it . |
| 24 | The digestion reaction was stopped after 12 seconds by addition of 4µl formamide containing 10mM EDTA and 0.1% ( w/v ) bromophenol blue . |
| 25 | He then gained some extra seconds of recuperation by tying up his laces . |
| 26 | If Gilliland is correct , the true value of the mean solar radius is more nearly 959.8 seconds of arc . |
| 27 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 28 | Bath will meet Waterloo without England No 8 Ben Clarke and fly-half Stuart Barnes , whose drop goal in the dying seconds of extra-time doomed Harlequins to defeat in last year 's epic final . |
| 29 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 30 | The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty . |