Example sentences of "twenty seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could tell by the tone of her voice that today she would be counting , and woe betide him if he failed to reach the kitchen before his allotted twenty seconds were used up . |
| 2 | The time for the race — 9 minutes 1.9 seconds — beat the previous record ( Golden Miller in 1934 ) by nearly twenty seconds and was to stand until 1990 . |
| 3 | Twenty seconds is , apparently , a good ‘ get-out ’ time . |
| 4 | They had twenty seconds . |
| 5 | This takes twenty seconds or less . |
| 6 | Twenty seconds . |
| 7 | There seemed to be fluctuations and cycles , from one of about twenty seconds to one corresponding to the monthly lunar cycle . |
| 8 | You pump up the fuel pressure , p rime , and raise the starter switch for twenty seconds to spin up the flywheel . |
| 9 | That , as if taking the hint , began quietly to roll , and within twenty seconds , we again had a clear view of the station . |
| 10 | The flares were hanging low , only some twenty seconds of light remaining . |
| 11 | Some twenty seconds elapsed before the empty suit spasmed , then one leg pulled slowly up on itself , as if an inflating pressure was at work . |
| 12 | There were no records broken that day , the winner taking fourteen minutes twenty seconds to cover the course , over a minute slower than the previous year 's winner . |
| 13 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 14 | To survive , a performer has to establish dominance within twenty seconds , and already I could feel the pack instinct rising in them . |
| 15 | Contran illuminates a warning light if any transmission exceeds twenty seconds in length , and automatically switches the transmission off if it exceeds thirty seconds . |
| 16 | ( Not many calls exceed twenty seconds , but if for any reason you should need to transmit for longer , you can override the cut-out by simply releasing the PTT for an instant , then pressing it again ) |
| 17 | Niki ducked into the pits , changed tyres and came out twenty seconds behind Tambay . |
| 18 | In twenty seconds more they were gone , to the sound of spinning wheels on the ice and grinding gears . |
| 19 | Thanks to the little organism , her life signal would change every twenty seconds for anything up to half an hour . |
| 20 | Within twenty seconds of leaving the safety of the shore , the front of the raft is sucked into the raging froth then hurled skyward , flinging us all into the river . |
| 21 | James studied the title page and for twenty seconds pretended to be fascinated by the contents of page one . |
| 22 | There was nothing dramatic to mark its going — just a stream of air bubbles that became gradually smaller and ceased altogether after about twenty seconds . |
| 23 | The short-term store has a limit of about twenty seconds unless there is opportunity for rehearsal , e.g. this is the maximum time available between looking up a telephone number and then dialling it unless the operator repeats it to himself . |
| 24 | Sister Rosario 's beady eyes scanned the classroom for about twenty seconds before she said , ‘ Let that be a warning to any would-be bullies in this class . |
| 25 | It is motorised so that it can rapidly circumnavigate the platform , measuring distances by trigonometry as it moves to record a human head can take as little as fifteen to twenty seconds . |
| 26 | I 've timed both ways and there is n't any more than twenty seconds in it . |
| 27 | Cecilia sat in her comfortable drawing room on the sofa-bed that was always a sofa and never a bed — ‘ But you 've got five bedrooms , Ma , ’ said Tina who had her eye on it — and turned on the television at twenty seconds to six . |
| 28 | Twenty seconds and it began to do its own action replay . |
| 29 | Say twenty seconds to exit the Simonova 's shield zone , at which point the pod would be a target for both of the adjacent platforms … |
| 30 | After what seemed like a couple of hours , but was actually about twenty seconds , she began to rise involuntarily , and something bumped her shoulder painfully . |