Vocabulary and grammar were self-scrutinised in the microsecond before they emerged from my mouth; I even found myself punctuating my own conversation – putting in semicolons, for God's sake.
There is no photo of Ainsley Harriott where he does not look like he said "ooh, naughty!" in the microsecond before the flash went off.
I generally have a sunny disposition; however, the microsecond just before the "click" of the camera it nearly always catches me between smiles as it were, with my eyes blinking, squinting, or gazing off into the distance, essentially doing anything to escape the dreaded freeze frame moment at hand.
That it's only now in the geological microseconds before The End where we see exactly how fucked up everything is and always has been and how utterly powerless anyone is to do anything about it.
The first the Maria Lenk aquatic centre knew of Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow's bronze medal in the 10 metre platform dive was a screeching cry from the Team GB coach Jane Figuero a microsecond before the arena itself erupted.
The PAC-3 has a collar of 180 small rocket motors that fire explosively in the last microseconds before impact, guiding the nose of the missile into direct collision with its target, a Lockheed Martin spokesman said.
A microsecond before impact, the orca phalanx executes a perfect U-turn.
In the microsecond between impact and brain death, the "buzz", as these young men describe it, is said to be thoroughly diverting.
Bane is its most emo moment, but this agonised track shows everything that techno is capable of: lighting up life by the microsecond as it scythes forward.
The 76 onboard explosive devices popped off in sequence to the microsecond, throwing valves and cutting loose tether lines.
