Sentence examples for barely one second from inspiring English sources

Leno spent barely one second thanking Bruce Hornsby and Eric Clapton after they performed, despite having said that getting them was "kind of a coup," so that he could hit his nightly ten-minutes-to-the-hour mark breaking for a promo for local news.

Barely one fifth of the models reported on limitations of their methodology such as competing causes (8, 19%), lag times (7, 17%) or confounding (8, 19%).

Barely one third of British voters bothered to turn out in the 2014 elections and only one in 10 can name their MEP.

Of the 508,000 tourists who visited Ecuador in 1999, down slightly from 1998, barely one third were from the United States, and many of those came to study Spanish in low-budget exchange programs.

As he put it not long before his death, in 1924, and exaggerating only a little, "In the body of my work barely one tenth is what may be called sea stuff".

Peter R. Orszag, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former official in the Clinton administration, said the projected shortfall of Social Security -- $3.5 trillion over the next 75 years -- is barely one third the cost of making Mr. Bush's tax cuts permanent.

Even though the travellers considered themselves well-informed of TD as a health risk, barely one third of them followed the TD prevention advice given.

Since our shRNA library covers barely one third of all human genes and some of the shRNAs might not be effective or might have off-target effects, a pathway analysis based on the complete gene interaction network can gain us a more global picture of the inter-relationship of the selected genes.

Rana Plaza victims, as their compensation fund was reported to be barely one-third full, despite pressure on brands to take some financial responsibility.

Income per head on the reservations was barely one-third of the national average in 2000, but researchers at Harvard have also found that Native Americans narrowed the gap during the 1990s.The introduction of ever-bigger casinos and more self-government have played a role in this; but so have women.

A UN-backed scheme to compensate victims of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory collapse is barely one-third full, despite pressure on dozens of western brands to assume some financial responsibility for one of the world's deadliest industrial accidents of modern times.