Example sentences of "only a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lasts only a second or two . |
| 2 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 3 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 4 | But I hesitated only a second before I accepted his gift excitedly . |
| 5 | For , although St Leonard 's is surrounded by fields , R.A.F. Coningsby is only a second away as the supersonic fighters fly . |
| 6 | Carrie hesitated , but only a second , and then she ran after him . |
| 7 | Only a second 's ignorance , but ignorance . |
| 8 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 9 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 10 | Only a second . |
| 11 | But it was not Maria ; a whiteness , a flowing whiteness , a long coat or a dressing-gown — I had only a second 's sight , but I knew it was a woman and I knew it was not an old woman . |
| 12 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 13 | This was only a second outside the class lap record set by Ian Newton last year . |
| 14 | For only a second , a terrified look crossed Celia 's plain face , then she laughed . |
| 15 | The 15-year-old South Shields schoolgirl described it as ‘ pathetic ’ , even though she was only a second away from the record . |
| 16 | But it was only a second |