Example sentences of "[vb past] a [det] seconds " in BNC.
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1 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
2 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | There was no answer , only silence again , followed a few seconds later by the crashing sound . |
5 | Facet augmentation returned a few seconds later . |
6 | Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it . |
7 | It took a few seconds after he regained consciousness to realize that he was blindfolded . |
8 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
9 | What she saw brought her upright , but , still foggy with sleep , she took a few seconds to interpret what she saw . |
10 | The jeep-driver went into the farmhouse and emerged a few seconds later with the burly man . |
11 | The hand rampaged through various pockets and emerged a few seconds later with a rectangle of paper torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
12 | She hesitated a few seconds before putting her arm around the girl 's thin shoulders . |
13 | The silence lasted a few seconds . |
14 | Closing my eyes , thinking that it might be either the sun or the Pernod , I waited a few seconds and chanced another look . |
15 | She waited a few seconds for any sounds that might tell her that her mother was in there but out of her range of sight . |
16 | He waited a few seconds for Lorton to reply . |
17 | Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again . |
18 | She waited a few seconds and shouted louder . |
19 | The only certainty was that she had a few seconds to act . |