Example sentences of "[adj] few seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | She blinked twice , taking the risk of missing the right few seconds while her eyes were shut . |
| 2 | Another few seconds and he might have fainted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 5 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 6 | This few seconds ’ pause was all the German gunners needed to set MTB 74 on fire . |
| 7 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ Cooper-Key paused for a judicious few seconds , ‘ if you insist . ’ |
| 9 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 10 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 11 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 12 | It is important to take into consideration more than one eye-witness report of these few seconds ( and the Gaumont newsreel film ) in an effort to decide what did happen ; but no account or film can tell us exactly what Emily Davison 's motive was . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Foley said nothing for a good few seconds . |
| 15 | After a long few seconds Karelius said , ‘ I can see it 's no use trying to convince you of the way I feel . |
| 16 | It had been a terrible few seconds until Dorcas 's eyes adjusted to the distance . |
| 17 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 18 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 19 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 20 | For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage . |
| 21 | In those few seconds Athelstan realised the depth of his own arrogance . |
| 22 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 23 | But he was n't , and during those few seconds while he 'd held her , she 'd had to admit this growing physical attraction she felt for him . |
| 24 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
| 25 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 26 | As she watched the door swing gently to a close behind him , Lindsey was left with the crazy feeling that she must have imagined those few seconds when something , even if she could n't put a name to it , had passed between them . |
| 27 | oh yes , and , and er it 's amazing those few seconds , how much they can relieve pain and suffering , if you can get people out quickly and , and take away the , the trouble from them . |
| 28 | ‘ Talk more slowly , ’ he said , in exasperation , after the first few seconds . |
| 29 | The current , although only slow , should be able to do this easily in the first few seconds before the crust becomes totally waterlogged and is still buoyant enough to counteract the weight of the bullet . |
| 30 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |