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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a second less" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a time duration that is shorter by one second than a specified amount.
Example: "The race was completed in one minute and fifty-nine seconds, which is a second less than his previous best time."
Alternatives: "one second shorter" or "a second fewer".
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A second less formal hand copied ff.
They adopted a second less than two years later.
A second less quantitative goal is to provide more transparency.
However, Resolution 1559 contains a second, less remarked-upon demand.
The study could also be useful in a second, less direct way.
But there is a second, less obvious distortion to the "one person, one vote" principle.
Then she took her billions and started a second, less successful, career in politics.
Data security concerns create a second, less obvious feedback loop (B) affecting the marketability of IoT products.
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In 1983, she had a second, less-severe stroke.
As he says, when about to be forced into a second less-than-desirable marriage, "I want to say that this already happened to me long ago".
It would also take a second, less-famous, but still burdensome blue-whale body that came ashore just up the coast, in the town of Rocky Harbour.
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