Sentence examples for one-third of a second from inspiring English sources

In addition, when the switch failed, it failed fast, literally in less than one-third of a second.

When he crossed the finish line he had won the gold by only one-third of a second.

There will still be a small delay -- about one-third of a second -- as the action bounces between locations.

A study published in 2003 showed that it takes a shooter about one-third of a second to recognize a threat, then each trigger pull takes one-tenth of a second.

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which closed in 1997, generated a maximum of 11 megawatts of energy for one-third of a second.

Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of technological thrillers like "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" who died of cancer in November, left behind at least one finished novel and about one-third of a second.

"I had one one-hundredth of a second to make a decision on what I was going to do.

As a result, our perception of reality lags behind reality by about one one-hundredth of a second.

Andrew Lauterstein won the bronze medal, also beating Crocker by one one-hundredth of a second.

It turned out that Phelps had actually finished one one-hundredth of a second ahead of Čavić, with a time of 50.58 seconds.

Sophisticated electronic tachistoscopes flash reliably for periods as brief as one millisecond (one-thousandth of a second).