Sentence examples for second shy from inspiring English sources

It's one second shy of two minutes.

That time was just one-hundredth of a second shy of Colin Jackson's world record.

Pistorius cleared a legal hurdle en route to the Games, but fell a second shy of the eligibility standard to run the 400 meters.

Khadijah Conda, sisterhood's child, is still one one-hundredth of a second shy of qualifying for next month's Olympic track-and-field trials in the 400-meter run.

Ahead of qualifying Button had suggested Q2 was a realistic goal, only to fall two tenths of a second shy, albeit ahead of Alonso for the second consecutive race.

His time in the semifinals fell only 18-hundredths of a second shy of his world record and was two seconds faster than Phelps's time, 1 55.33 to 1 57.30.

Lap 53: Vettel is just 2.2 seconds shy of Hamilton.

She finished the series in one minute — a few seconds shy of the fastest W.N.B.A. players.

The second place finishers were 11 seconds shy, and the third place team 18 seconds too fast.

At the end of the camp, David, then 16, ran his first ever 800m race and won in 1min 50sec, just 10 seconds shy of his future world records.

Dellis came up seven seconds shy of another of White's records by remembering the order of a shuffled deck of playing cards in one minute, thirty-four seconds.