Example sentences of "a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first cell is now empty , and a second , and a third . |
| 2 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 3 | A second was awarded in 1981 . |
| 4 | The first-years , after a first term filled with the medieval period and a second with the Renaissance , were now going to learn about the Baroque . |
| 5 | ‘ Les Misérables was quite complicated , so I 'd actually quite like a second go at it . |
| 6 | They will then start all over again and go round the cockpit a second or even a third time . |
| 7 | Losing sight of the tow plane for even a second can be lethal and the glider pilot must always release immediately if this happens . |
| 8 | On the ground the feeling only lasts a fraction of a second , but it can be more severe and prolonged during flight . |
| 9 | If you lose consciousness , even for a second , then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition . |
| 10 | Their gazes locked for a second and then Flemyng followed his wife up the road towards their disfigured house among the birch trees . |
| 11 | Breavman knew the whole procedure could revert in a second to desolation . |
| 12 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 13 | For a second or so we are undecided about whether the patch is an after-image or a spot of mildew on the wall . |
| 14 | Fifty-five years later , Hans Berger , a psychiatrist working in Jena , reported similar fluctuations in humans and discovered that , in a resting subject , this electroencephalogram ( EEG ) oscillated at a regular eight cycles a second , a pattern he called the alpha rhythm . |
| 15 | About a second before a subject moves a part of his body , a slow negative shift in the electrical potential generated by the brain begins . |
| 16 | It is these internally generated or endogenous components , lasting sometimes as long as a second after the triggering stimulus , which offer the most potential for investigating mental activities . |
| 17 | There is a second , yet more damaging , objection to the coding metaphor . |
| 18 | Not quite quickly enough Olive tried to shut out a second thought : that she would never , could never , have married an Englishman . |
| 19 | A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline . |
| 20 | As traditional Italian dances are often sung , the performers pose solemnly fur a second or two at the end of each phrase . |
| 21 | The illustration of double ropes being used to protect a second on a traverse is incorrect ; the drawing of a double-fisherman 's knot is actually of a single-fisherman 's ; the section on rigging anchors seems very sketchy with no consideration of using the rope to equally load them , rather than slings ; different types of shunt are discussed for self-protection on abseils but there is no mention of the cheap , simple prussik knot as an alternative , or the even more effective French prussik linking the controlling rope to the leg-loop of the harness . |
| 22 | Marmeladov 's huge notebook gesture towards Christ and the Russian people and suffering constitutes one warning that Dostoevsky was , at one stage , after something too big or too difficult or perhaps simply wrong for Crime and Punishment ; and Sonya 's declaration , again in the notebooks , makes a second : ‘ The Russian people have always suffered like Christ , says Sonya . ’ |
| 23 | System state is recorded three times a second , the data being preprocessed on the Archimedes before being passed to the college VAX cluster for statistical analysis . |
| 24 | Since each dot is followed by a spacing period equal to the dot duration , the dot signal length — shortest element in the code — is 1/80th of a second and the telegraphic speed is 80 Baud . |
| 25 | Certainly Tate is not prepared to see the Federal capital , Washington , as a restored Richmond , as Virgil 's Aeneas sees Rome as a second Troy . |
| 26 | In a second , the screen was replaced with a one-way mirror so that the mother could see the interacting pair but could not herself be seen . |
| 27 | New Zealand pushed out to 26-15 with a Kevin Iro try and a second from Elia , but after David Tanner had pegged two points back with a penalty , the winger claimed the try of the match by finishing a thrilling move between Phil Veivers and Mark Bailey . |
| 28 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 29 | ‘ All you have to do is be black and do n't curse the Jews directly , and the Jew will vote for the black in a second . |
| 30 | Bob Kimmins heaved open the floodgates and Mike Fielden , Hesketh with a second , Brendan Hanavan , Allan Wyllie and Charles Cusani allowed Lancashire to pour through unopposed . |