Example sentences of "[verb] a few seconds [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without it , my version occupied a few seconds under fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 3 | Retention alone is not sufficient for comprehension , but without this mental black-board will be difficult to relate the meaning of one word to the meaning of another seen a few seconds later . |
| 4 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
| 5 | About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road . |
| 6 | There was no answer , only silence again , followed a few seconds later by the crashing sound . |
| 7 | Facet augmentation returned a few seconds later . |
| 8 | The jeep-driver went into the farmhouse and emerged a few seconds later with the burly man . |
| 9 | The hand rampaged through various pockets and emerged a few seconds later with a rectangle of paper torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 10 | The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes . |
| 11 | Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again . |
| 12 | Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing . |