(And, when the instant was past, the speaking stopped; Churchill's important public oratory ceased even before the Battle of Britain was over).
This is a relationship that has already passed through the giddiness of instant passion, past the deeper notes of gathering dependency and now seems to be showing the first signs of damaging obsession.
United opened up Liverpool with controlled possession and Van Persie reacted quicker than Daniel Agger to clip an instant finish past keeper Pepe Reina from Evra's cross.
I had taken the utensils to eat with, but in my empty apartment, with only a few spoonfuls of instant oatmeal past my lips, I grew nauseous.
But, that instant, that leap, past, what do we find?
In the past, instant fortunes were made by striking oil or finding gold and diamonds.
Sending text messages from cellphones has shot past instant messaging from computers as a way for teens to communicate, according to Mediamark Research and Intelligence, a market research company.
But this is compatible with there being strong correlations between every instant in the past and the future, provided that positive and negative correlations average out.
For instance, we might consider a Kripke model in which the states are the present instant and all past ones, with later states accessible from earlier ones.
It's rarely possible to tell whether past instant-runoff elections have gone topsy-turvy in this way, because full ballot data aren't usually published.
