Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
| 2 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 3 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 4 | The message of the first oil shock was driven home by the second , when the Iranian revolution caused a further doubling of world crude prices . |
| 5 | The wind was strong and darkness coming nearer by the second . |
| 6 | It has a basic negentropic ( formative and organising ) effect even as heat increases , and therefore is the opposite of entropy which is the disintegration and disorganisation of matter set forth by the Second Law of Thermodynamics , which it thereby violates . |