Sentence examples for second to reach from inspiring English sources

This electronic transition occurs far more rapidly than the readjustment of the atoms of the centre, which then occurs within a time of about 10−12 second to reach the minimum vibrational level at c.

Although this is simple, it carries two disadvantages: signals take half a second to reach the satellite and return; and, because the satellite is so far away, they are weak by the time they hit earth.

"Play On," the third album for Ms. Underwood, below, and her second to reach No. 1, sold 318,000 copies in the United States last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Robson starts the set with a heavy serve and continues it with a wider one, the bludgeon for the first and maybe a spear for the second, to reach for the predictably weaponry/arsenal-related lingo.

At high levels of luminance, when cone vision is employed, the fusion frequency is high, increasing with increasing luminance in a logarithmic fashion the Ferry-Porter law so that at high levels it may require 60 flashes per second to reach a continuous sensation.

Within six years Yunus managed, first, to persuade the institutional banks to lend him the money he needed (though initially he himself had to act as guarantor) to offer what he called his microcredits, a term he invented; second, to reach 50-50 parity between the sexes, to lend money to as many women as men.

Woods birdied the third to reach two over.

But she was not the first to reach that milestone.

The Chanins' case was the first to reach trial.

Lifeboat number 2 was the first to reach the liner.

I was always first to reach the shore.