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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about one second" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a duration of time that is close to one second but not exact.
Example: "The light will change in about one second, so be ready to go."
Alternatives: "approximately one second" or "roughly one second".
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Unfortunately, your distant equipment takes about one second to respond to each button press.
Overall, haploid_highd can simulate one megabase genomes in a population of 10 individuals in about one second per generation on a present day desktop computer.
Experiments demonstrate that a complete migration can be completed within about one second.
The dilation response begins about one second before the fixation for revisits.
The time-lag is about one second and the separation between the old and new positions is ∼ 5 arcsec.
A novel and simple cylindrical jet-stirred reactor with short residence times (about one second) is described.
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Parcels' share was about one-sixth.
Trade taxes account for about one-fifth; corporate income tax, about one-eighth.
Manufacturing contributed about one-fifth to GDP and employed about one-fourth of the labour force.
A century later this proportion had decreased to about one-tenth.
"Alfred Kazin's Journals" represents about one-sixth of that total.
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