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The phrase "a second of a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a brief moment or a fraction of time related to something, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "I need just a second of a moment to gather my thoughts."
Alternatives: "a moment of" or "a fraction of".
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SCOTT SCHILLER: Talk for a second of a typical day in terms of the cadence.
Frequency meter, device for measuring the repetitions per unit of time (customarily, a second) of a complete electromagnetic waveform.
In 1988, the four-man team came within two-hundredths of a second of a bronze medal.
In 2013 Yasuhiro Oikawa, an engineer at Waseda University in Japan, used a high-speed camera capable of shooting 10,000 frames a second of a speaker's throat.
But investors large and small must share the blame, he writes: like Cinderella, they knew that midnight would bring on pumpkins and mice but, hating to miss a second of a great party, they stayed too long.
Florida Coach Billy Donovan said his team's helter-skelter style is intended to take the "fear and anxiety" out of every possession so his players won't treat a second of a 40-minute game as if it's life or death.
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"This is a first-of-a-kind campaign," he adds.
What is a fourth of a sixth?
It only lives for a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second".
(A hydrogen atom weighs 60 billionths of a billionth of a billionth of an ounce).
Micro is a millionth of a meter.
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