Example sentences of "in [art] few seconds " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 32 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 33 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 34 | ‘ Did you know you can garrotte someone in a few seconds ? ’ |
| 35 | If a man 's face could age in a few seconds , his did . |
| 36 | In a few seconds , Dame Frances was a blazing human torch . |
| 37 | In a few seconds she felt better and raised her head , her eyes enormous in her pale face . |
| 38 | speed of execution — 100 years in the life of a watershed can be simulated in a few seconds of computer time , and |
| 39 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 40 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |
| 41 | In a few seconds the fuse caught , and after about ten seconds the mass of flame blew up and out , throwing something black and smoking twenty metres or more into the late-afternoon air and scattering pieces all over the Grounds . |
| 42 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
| 43 | It all happened in a few seconds . |