Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a few seconds " in BNC.
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1 | Peering out a few seconds later , Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street . |
2 | Okay , let's have a break er if you can come back reasonably quickly er we can make up a few seconds . |
3 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
4 | It was certainly slow , but then computers somehow nowadays can take months to turn out a few seconds of screen time . |
5 | There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’ |