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The phrase "a tenth of second" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "a tenth of a second." You can use it when measuring time intervals, particularly in contexts like sports or scientific experiments.
Example: "The runner finished the race in just under ten seconds, with a time of 9.8 seconds, which is a tenth of a second faster than his previous record."
Alternatives: "one-tenth of a second" or "0.1 seconds."
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Fernando Alonso and his Ferrari team continued their battle to edge closer to the Red Bulls after they set the third-fastest time, at just a tenth of second slower.
In goal-directed top-down attention paradigms, expected perceptive contents are categorized as relevant or irrelevant information within a tenth of second (Thorpe et al., 1996; Rousselet et al., 2007; for review see Klimesch, 2011).
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