Example sentences of "[det] few seconds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 4 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 5 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |