Sentence examples for seconds has been from inspiring English sources

For decades now, forty-three seconds has been considered the edge of the tightrope.

An app that claims to recharge phone batteries in 30 seconds has been publicly endorsed by the Fijian government, despite experts saying it defies the rules of thermodynamics.

This sequence of dart leader-return stroke typically occurs three to four times, although a flash to the ground that had 26 strokes and lasted two seconds has been reported.

Adlington is seeking to become the first Briton to successfully defend an Olympic swimming title and her time of eight minutes 21.78 seconds has been bettered this year only by herself and American 15-year-old Katie Ledecky.

Wayne Rooney's Twitter row with a Liverpool fan, which included him being called "a fat ugly lil nonse" [sic], and the England ace offering to "put u asleep within 10 seconds", has been branded "a bit of harmless banter" by a Manchester United source.

The quick process of water penetration into cracked cement mortar during the first few seconds has been visualized for the first time with high temporal resolution of 10 fps by neutron radiography (NR).

All of 33 seconds had been played.

However, short-lived attacks lasting seconds have been reported [7].

Third has been a shambolic opposition.

The first has been to recentralise government.

A third has been a serial entrepreneur.