Example sentences of "seconds of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Delaney inserted the detonator pin attached to the timer , primed the circuit , and set ten seconds of fuse . |
| 3 | The teacher , Beth , recites eleven seconds of poetry once they are quiet . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | A few more seconds of hesitation and all was lost . |
| 6 | Divide this number of degrees by 3 to get the number of seconds of turn . |
| 7 | Ease off the bank to stop the turn when the stop-watch shows the required number of seconds of turn . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | speed of execution — 100 years in the life of a watershed can be simulated in a few seconds of computer time , and |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once the film has stopped I want you to describe everything that you saw during the previous five seconds of film . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Some of the elaboration given was not directly related to objects and events in the five seconds of film just viewed . |
| 16 | Nine hours later , the file was filled , and Yggdrasil squeezed in another two seconds of calculation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On the same system , an 808 word text ( with 6.5 alternatives for each word ) requires just 0.3 seconds of CPU . |
| 20 | In 1913 the Gramophone Company copied seven seconds of Quail-song 29 ½ times ( the half being when the operator , with muffled curses , misplaced the reproducing needle ) . |
| 21 | The operation began on Tuesday after the Yard released 35 seconds of video film , enhanced by scientists , of two men shortly before the bomb exploded outside Harrods , slightly injuring three people . |
| 22 | A standard disc could contain only 25 seconds of video . |
| 23 | Within seconds of house-lights-on , all five set-lists have been swiped . |
| 24 | Our experience has shown that on average obtaining the syntactic information requires about 20 seconds of run time per word ( including garbage collection ) . |
| 25 | For morphologically complex words this can be much worse , for example the word unbelievable on the same system ( including garbage collection ) required over 200 seconds of run time . |
| 26 | The treatment , known as photorefractive keratectomy , is performed on an out-patient basis and takes an average of 20 seconds of laser time . |
| 27 | The pain was n't so bad , it was the breathlessness , using all his energy to suck another few seconds of life from a chest that seemed to be wrapped in rusty iron bands . |
| 28 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 29 | He finished sixth in yesterday 's stage eleven , 86 miles from Liverpool 's Kings Dock to Salford Quays , as 76 riders came within 30 seconds of winner Jacek Minckiewicz of Poland . |
| 30 | There were even more empty seats as the game ticked into the last minute , which was 60 seconds of magic , madness and mayhem . |