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How to use the word Seconds in a Sentence? Page #10

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When I was first sucked into the pipe, it was so turbulent it was unbelievable, i had to hang onto my mask. It was 20-30 seconds before I got my bearings.

Le Cun

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I had to hang onto my mask. It was 20-30 seconds before I got my bearings.

Le Cun

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're not going to quit, no matter if we're down four with 10 seconds or up four with 10 seconds. We play all 48 minutes no matter how bad or great we're playing.

Guard Klay Thompson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As soon as you are talking credit card, you're going to have to wait, getting money in five seconds is a value proposition because it cuts working capital.

Marc Niederkorn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you can’t hold it four to five seconds, then the weight’s too damned heavy, you don’t need to hold it when you train, but that’s how you should test it.

Nick Tumminello

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Landing is the most difficult part of the mission for multiple reasons, it takes radio signals traveling at the speed of light 2 to 3 seconds in total to send and receive messages – the spacecraft is traveling at 2 kilometers a second at that point.

Yonatan Winetraub

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I hope she makes it, maybe those few seconds before the police arrived could be the difference between life and death.

Didarul Sarder

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You're going to have three to five minutes of shaking, and if you're used to earthquakes in California, they typically last 15 to 30 seconds and before you are really sure of what is happening, it is over.

Chris Goldfinger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What is captured on the in-car camera when Officer Freeman gives his initial commands to Mr. Joseph and the time in which Mr. Joseph charges toward Officer Freeman was a matter of seconds. It was not a very long duration.

Brian Manley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When our alarm goes off, it's like (we're) firemen, i was here in about 30 seconds. Half the people didn't even know where I went; they just saw me running out the door!

John Soto

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We pull him out and as we pull him out, within five seconds later, the truck goes up.

Jamie Foxx

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A recent study showed on ABC evening news, Trump over a period of time got 81 minutes of time. Bernie Sanders got 20 seconds, now, you tell me why.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In 30 seconds, he offended gays, he offended women, he offended 18 million people and he offended one of the largest congressional delegations in the country, you can't govern like that. You can't win a campaign like that. And he's getting worst and the discussion is only degenerating.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Within 10 seconds it went from, 'Wow, that's a fire' to 'We cannot be where we are and we need to be moving away from that,'.

Josh Gatlin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

After downloading this app, we only need to set the birth of date and nationality for the new born baby, once the baby cries, we only need to press the recording button for 10 seconds, and the sound will be uploaded to the Cloud Drive. After the differentiating process, the analysis result of the sound would be transferred to Mum's mobile phone. So Mum can depend on the actual situation to determine whether the analysis result is correct or not, to make a revision for the app.

Chang Chuan-yu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Well if you look at the different situations, of course you could name many of them, I could get you a list and I'll have it sent to your office in two seconds. But there certainly were a lot of abuse of women, you look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones, or any of them, and that certainly will be fair game, certainly, if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Well if you look at the different situations, of course you could name many of them, I could get you a list and I'll have it sent to your office in two seconds. But there certainly were a lot of abuse of women, you look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones, or any of them, and that certainly will be fair game.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I talked to Harry Reid once in 2012 for 30 seconds before getting this job.

Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Loehmann, for example insists that he observed things and took action that would have been physically impossible for any human being to do in the under two seconds it took him to shoot a 12-year-old child.

Subodh Chandra

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Five seconds, we stared right at each other ... and in those five seconds, bullet holes passed through my window, he was looking directly at my face; he was aiming at my head. I could see it in his eyes.

Ozy Licano

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While you're waiting for the ambulance the person you're worried about is not getting enough oxygen, seconds count.

Jennifer Stepp

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A typical oil change today takes about 20 minutes to complete. With the Nexcel system it takes only 90 seconds to do the full oil service. So the Nexcel oil cell contains the engine oil and filter. So by taking the oil cell out of the car and putting a brand new oil cell back in; that's it - oil change done.

Oliver Taylor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I definitely remember the few seconds right before I make my first entrance, I kind of got quite emotional, i remembered all the times that I have done that when I was so small in my living room and just to think that it was really happening was quite a big moment.

Francesca Hayward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So we are going to collect effectively more signal with this scanner than we do with current devices. And that lets us do a couple of things. We can either image much more quickly and collect our signal in 1/40th of the time so we can do scans in 30 seconds that currently take 30 minutes. Or we can drop the radiation dose significantly and do scans at a fraction of the radiation dose that we currently do them at.

Simon Cherry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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