Sentence examples for precious seconds from inspiring English sources

Precious seconds were lost.

This takes some time — precious seconds, minutes.

Some robot weapons already operate without human operators to save precious seconds.

As gasoline competitors stopped to refuel, wasting precious seconds, the R10 kept lapping the track.

There is no, "By the way,... ...... — there are only precious seconds of airtime.

The prime minister used up precious seconds of his closing address to complain about the format.

But the 25-year-old Rodriguez slipped in the first turn, costing her precious seconds.

In this economy, an uncomfortable truth is that precious seconds must be weighed against dollars.

"Do you think so?" Frotheringham said: "Every minute the precious seconds flit by.

Because for those precious seconds, Ohno was not solid, or good, or great, or even spectacular.

Now the computer industry says it wants to give back some of those precious seconds.