Example sentences of "seconds [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 2 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 3 | There were two — perhaps three — seconds for action before the car would hit the child . |
| 4 | This kind of intelligence produces high speed copy times of around 50 seconds for format , copy and verify on a 360k drive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But , by the even narrower margin of 38 seconds after handicap correction , they had to concede the place to Italy 's Gatorade . |
| 7 | Life after Brian could not after started better for United … just 41 seconds after kick-off they were in the lead … a defence slip-up by watford but they all count … |
| 8 | Life after Brian could not after started better for United … just 41 seconds after kick-off they were in the lead … a defence slip-up by watford but they all count … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The official Tass news agency announced on Oct. 11 that the Soviet Union 's most advanced Zenit booster rocket had exploded seconds after launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan on Oct. 4 . |
| 11 | No longer do we expect the penis to be a magical instrument that stands upright on demand , throbs and pulsates all night with the strength of 10,000 men , and immediately regains its firmness just seconds after ejaculation . |
| 12 | All infants in the regulated group had their cords clamped between 25 and 35 seconds after delivery ; positioning 20 cm below the introitus was possible in all but two cases . |
| 13 | Then , after people have had their own ten seconds of breathlessness , they remember that he is competing against those mysterious , those hideously capable Americans for an Olympic gold medal , and , oh , they suddenly say , would n't it be lovely if he won ? |
| 14 | Delaney inserted the detonator pin attached to the timer , primed the circuit , and set ten seconds of fuse . |
| 15 | The teacher , Beth , recites eleven seconds of poetry once they are quiet . |
| 16 | For example , some seven seconds of processor time are required to create the data structure for the entry ‘ eight ’ ( twice the time taken to retrieve the entry from the database ) . |
| 17 | A few more seconds of hesitation and all was lost . |
| 18 | Divide this number of degrees by 3 to get the number of seconds of turn . |
| 19 | Ease off the bank to stop the turn when the stop-watch shows the required number of seconds of turn . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | speed of execution — 100 years in the life of a watershed can be simulated in a few seconds of computer time , and |
| 23 | According to On Location ( January 1985 ) , a trade paper , they achieved 130 seconds of film at a resolution of 3000 x 1620 pixels ( that is , nearly five million ‘ bits ’ of picture information ) in mapping flat still-picture data on to a simulated sphere and programmed in movements from a map of wind-currents on Jupiter . |
| 24 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 25 | Once the film has stopped I want you to describe everything that you saw during the previous five seconds of film . |
| 26 | You can repeat scenarios which you have previously described but please make sure that in each case you describe things strictly in the context of the preceding five seconds of film ’ . |
| 27 | Some of the elaboration given was not directly related to objects and events in the five seconds of film just viewed . |
| 28 | Nine hours later , the file was filled , and Yggdrasil squeezed in another two seconds of calculation . |
| 29 | The user documentation quotes that on a SUN 3/160 machine running Kyoto Common Lisp ( KCL ) , the time required to look up a large word ( excluding garbage collection ) is 11.8 seconds of CPU . |
| 30 | Using a SUN Sparc 4/75 computer with 48 MBytes of memory , the syntax analyser requires just 0.4 seconds of CPU time ( 3.6 seconds real time ) to process 521 written words , for which there were on average 10 alternatives for each word . |