Example sentences of "a few seconds [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the lines are balanced you should be able to hold this position for a few seconds without the sail changing its position . |
| 2 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 3 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 4 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 5 | It is a good technique to allow a few seconds at the beginning of a shot before the pan movement actually starts to allow the audience time to take in the scene . |
| 6 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 7 | This loading process is very fast ( a few seconds for the same 70,000 words ) because there is effectively only one piece of data to be read , instead of 70,000 . |
| 8 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 9 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 10 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 11 | Patrese , having resisted a strong attack from Berger , was now in front with Schumacher third , a few seconds behind the McLaren but pulling slowly away from Brundle , who , despite suffering from increasing oversteer as the fuel load lightened , was comfortably ahead of Jean Alesi 's Ferrari . |
| 12 | When Malpass did emerge , only a few seconds after the shots , it was dramatic enough to make me forget my churning stomach . |
| 13 | As Lorenz wrote , ‘ one of them may be inclined to go on to mouth-pulling a few seconds before the other one . |
| 14 | The old woman ducked quickly back into her soft cave , to linger for a few seconds by the animal . |
| 15 | You will be able to see the lush green streamer weed swaying in the current , and if you look carefully , letting your eyes adjust to the movement of the current and weed , preferably with the use of polaroid spectacles , you may see one or more black shapes that suddenly emerge from under the green ribbon , hover for a few seconds in the open water and then just as suddenly disappear back into the weed . |