Example sentences of "a [det] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few second I was n't sure which side had won . |
| 2 | No I ai n't gon na , I got ta go and have a look round a few second hand shops and that . |
| 3 | It 's a two and a half second sequence — I 've timed it . |
| 4 | Report repeated two and a half second ticking sounds from plane . |
| 5 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 6 | The three-year-old showed promise as a juvenile with his best effort probably being his length and a half second to Petardia in the Group Three Champagne Stakes at Doncaster . |
| 7 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |