Example sentences of "a [adj] seconds [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 2 | That would take the smile off their faces all right and give them a few seconds relief . |
| 3 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 4 | Central Hotel , Gordon Street , Glasgow : The Central Hotel is located in the heart of the city , a few seconds walk from a main line station and within easy access of the M8 . |
| 5 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 6 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 7 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 8 | By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders . |
| 9 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 10 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 11 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |