Sentence examples for a difference of second from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a difference of second" is not correct in English.
It should be "a difference of seconds." You can use it when discussing a time discrepancy or variation that is measured in seconds.
Example: "The race was so close that the winner finished with a difference of seconds from the runner-up."
Alternatives: "a time difference of seconds" or "a gap of seconds."

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For example, third derivative in Equation (5) can be approximated by a difference of second derivatives.

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The Capitals celebrated, but a video review of the goal showed the puck was just short of crossing the goal line when time ran out, a difference of a tenth of a second.

In essence, there was a mean difference of 0.63 seconds (95% CI 0.14 1.12 seconds) in the performance of the TUG for high-functioning versus a difference of 3.59 seconds (95% CI = 2.18 4.99 seconds) for those in institutional settings [ 16].

At the first women's 100m event in Amsterdam in 1928, the winning time was 12.2 seconds compared with the men's 10.8 - a difference of 1.4 seconds.

On the other hand there was only an increase of 1% (0.8 seconds [CI: -1.2, 2.8]) in the placebo group, corresponding to a difference of 7.6 seconds [CI: 2.9, 12.2] between groups (p = 0.09).

At kilometer 22, LeMond passed in 29:56 and Chiappucci in 30:27, a difference of 31 seconds.

Officially, Mr. Obama was projected to win 49.797percentt of the vote there, and Mr. Romney 49.775percentt, a difference of two-hundredths of a percentage point".

A difference of 30 seconds, and she might have been among the victims.

If you cut physicians' net incomes by 20percentt, it's a difference of one-tenth of 1percentt per annum in the growth rate of health care costs over 20 years.

"A difference of a third or more on G.P.A. is a large effect, and what's surprising is that there was apparently no fadeout of the effect," said Greg Duncan, an economist at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the research.

Here is the reminder: "Obviously it is not real time or we would all have to bring along sandwiches and blankets; but a difference of 10 seconds in a scene is a tremendous step toward veristic reproduction rather than theatrical abstraction".

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