Example sentences of "[det] few seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another few seconds and he might have fainted . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This few seconds ’ pause was all the German gunners needed to set MTB 74 on fire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 9 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 10 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In those few seconds Athelstan realised the depth of his own arrogance . |
| 13 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |