Example sentences of "[art] [adj] seconds [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bath will meet Waterloo without England No 8 Ben Clarke and fly-half Stuart Barnes , whose drop goal in the dying seconds of extra-time doomed Harlequins to defeat in last year 's epic final . |
| 2 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 3 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 4 | In between , Strachan showed his alertness again , running Nigel Worthington and John Harkes ragged in the first seconds after half-time to set up a simple header for Lee Chapman . |
| 5 | Some of the elaboration given was not directly related to objects and events in the five seconds of film just viewed . |
| 6 | speed of execution — 100 years in the life of a watershed can be simulated in a few seconds of computer time , and |
| 7 | It was certainly slow , but then computers somehow nowadays can take months to turn out a few seconds of screen time . |
| 8 | The rig change is done at the very end of the turn which will involve a few seconds of clew first sailing |
| 9 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 10 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 11 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 12 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 13 | Thirteen and a half seconds after ignition , the booster motor falls away , and half a second later the jet engine starts propelling the missile for the rest of its flight . |
| 14 | It is the longest straight stretch of railway in the world and the Indian-Pacific 's siren is set to sound every 90 seconds in case the drivers fall asleep . |
| 15 | It is well known that each vessel contributes to movement of the lymph by contracting once every 6–10 seconds in response to being gorged with fluid from the vessel upstream . |
| 16 | The source also transmits a VHF signal for every 8 seconds of arc it passes through . |