Example sentences of "[coord] a [det] seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Within three and a half seconds he 'd made a couple of marks on the paper and shoved it back . |
| 3 | Boeing jetliners touch down every four and a half seconds of every day . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S Samantha Purvis finished fifth in the consolation final of the women 's 200 metres butterfly in a time two and a half seconds slower than her British record . |
| 5 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 6 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 7 | he 'll hit the ground in eight and a half seconds ! |
| 8 | The real speed machines here can go from nought to sixty in just two and a half seconds . |
| 9 | Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time . |
| 10 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 11 | A bemused Southall found himself cautioned for time-wasting and a few seconds later had to pick the ball out of the net . |
| 12 | The portiere , an over-weight , ill-tempered man of sixty , shouted into the courtyard and a few seconds later his grandson Aldo arrived . |
| 13 | As I watched , one of the engines cut out and a few seconds later I heard and saw the explosion , two or three streets away . |
| 14 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 15 | She rang the bell , and a few seconds later the bent , withered figure of Jamie Shepherd appeared . |
| 16 | Normally this is only a minor irritation ( unless the controller suffers from migraine ) , and a few seconds later another transmission sorts the whole thing out . |
| 17 | She watched her mother walk out of the kitchen as if in a trance and a few seconds later Carla was nestled in her granny 's arms . |
| 18 | She fumbled with her purse and a few seconds later she held a lighter shakily to the end of a cigarette and puffed greedily . |
| 19 | The boat went on without her and a few seconds later went down under the water . |
| 20 | I wondered what Rupert was doing now , and a few seconds later I found out . |
| 21 | Lepine was knocked unconscious by the impact and a few seconds later his head was hacked from his shoulders by a flurry of coupe-coupe blows rained on him in the driving seat by the surviving coolies . |
| 22 | Shapes moved against the drawn curtains of the room beyond , and a few seconds later the girl came forward into the light . |
| 23 | The pulsar is also spinning rapidly with a period between I ms and a few seconds , but its magnetic dipole axis is not aligned with the spin axis . |
| 24 | Twoflower followed , and a few seconds later there was a strangling sound from the sergeant as the Luggage closed its lid with a snap , stood up , stretched , and marched after them . |
| 25 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 26 | And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham . |
| 27 | In a moment it was sliding over the drawbridge and a few seconds later she saw its red tail-lights disappearing at speed down the mountainside towards the outside world . |
| 28 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |