Example sentences of "[adj] seconds [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But better than that , Mr. Deputy Speaker — I am sure that you will allow 30 seconds indulgence here — I remind Conservative Members , although they were not all present at the time , of a Bill introduced way back in 1976 , if we can have a trip down memory lane . |
| 2 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 3 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 4 | That would take the smile off their faces all right and give them a few seconds relief . |
| 5 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 6 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 7 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 8 | Central Hotel , Gordon Street , Glasgow : The Central Hotel is located in the heart of the city , a few seconds walk from a main line station and within easy access of the M8 . |
| 9 | Graham was 47th , 4.32 seconds back of the winner , while Ronald Duncan sky-gazed into the netting with bright and beautiful bruises to show for it . |
| 10 | But Jackson , 25 , who recorded a remarkable 13.10 seconds time in the morning heats despite easing up , somehow stayed upright . |
| 11 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's dead ? ’ said the blonde voice after ten seconds silence . |
| 13 | Hold the camcorder to one subject at a time , starting a new shot every time you change to a new subject ; each of these shots could be of say five to ten seconds duration . |
| 14 | Leroy Burrell , whose storming second leg set up the Yanks for their 37.40 seconds power show in the relay , commented : ‘ Carl is in better shape than anybody who came to Barcelona . |
| 15 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |
| 16 | Blood flow measurements were performed using a Periflux PF3 laser Doppler flowmeter ( Perimed , Stockholm ) with a 12 kHz bandwidth and 3 seconds output time constant settings . |
| 17 | Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood . |
| 18 | All that and more so join us in sixty five seconds time ! |
| 19 | In a period of , say , 30 seconds , pattern A might repeat six times ( being of five seconds duration ) . |
| 20 | Max speed 155mph ; 0 — 60mph 6.1 seconds Fuel consumption At 75mph , 20.6mpg ; urban , 13.6mpg ; overall average 18.3mpg Special features Four-speed automatic transmission ; anti-lock braking ; acceleration skid control ; fully independent suspension with self-levelling ; automatic climate control incorporating a charcoal filter ; electric adjustment of heated seats ( with memory control ) , windows , mirrors , steering wheel and electric rear roller blind ; double-glazed side windows ; self-closing doors and boot lid ( avoiding the need to slam tight ) ; automatic reversing guidance rods , which pop up when reverse is engaged . |
| 21 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 22 | By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders . |
| 23 | For example , the Standard Procedure has resulted in a 4 minute 40 seconds pattern . |
| 24 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 25 | Physicists of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) based near Oxford , England , suceeded for the first time in producing for two seconds energy by means of nuclear fusion . |
| 26 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |
| 27 | Thirty seconds worth of family things I 'll put June on from Mansfield first cos June 's out champ are you ready ? |
| 28 | You 've got sixty two to beat thirty seconds worth of things to do with families and your time starts now . |
| 29 | Erm give me thirty seconds worth of famous dogs they can be in cartoons , they can be in history , they can be in films , they can be anywhere and we 'll do it in half an hours time . |
| 30 | All right so we 'll have thirty seconds worth of famous dogs and pooches . |