He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.

Jess wasted a few seconds trying to yank them loose.

And only a few seconds to answer it.

After a few seconds, she said, `` Dad didn't like Cappy.

He stood looking down for a few seconds, then backed up two or three paces from the edge.

It still took him another few seconds to remember the job he had done for Frank Ackerly.

I drove off through the cool darkness to Nadine's apartment and rang the bell, and in a few seconds a young girl opened the door.

It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been resting, sleeplessly.

This might sound complex, but first of all the number of di-atomic molecules that can exist at the temperatures of the atomizers used in AAS is relatively small, and second, the correction is performed by the computer within a few seconds.

Also, modern semi-automatic pistols take only a few seconds to reload.

Antares B can be observed with a small telescope for a few seconds during lunar occultations while Antares itself is hidden by the Moon ; it was discovered by Johann Tobias Bürg during one such occultation on April 13, 1819.

Continuous, reliable control of the airplane was necessary for flights lasting longer than a few seconds.

The effects of this process will remain for a period of time known as the " refractory period ", which can range from a few seconds to some hours while it is slowly reabsorbed back into the synovial fluid.

Bacteria such as E. coli are unable to choose the direction in which they swim, and are unable to swim in a straight line for more than a few seconds due to rotational diffusion.

This regulation allows the bacterium to ' remember ' chemical concentrations from the recent past, a few seconds, and compare them to those it is currently experiencing, thus ' know ' whether it is traveling up or down a gradient.

Players are generally given a few seconds before the round begins ( known as " freeze time ") to prepare and buy equipment, during which they cannot attack or move ( one notable exception is that a player may receive damage during freeze time.

Newborn chimps are helpless ; their grasping reflex is not strong enough to support them for more than a few seconds.

Coated vesicles formed from the plasma membrane have a diameter of about 36 nm and a lifetime measured in a few seconds.

The practical measurement of traffic is typically based on continuous observations over several days or weeks, during which the instantaneous traffic is recorded at regular, short intervals ( such as every few seconds ).

St. Louis was on Iowa's thirty-five-yard line with a few seconds to play.

Other good examples of this technique for eliminating several yards of waste space and a few seconds of waste time can be seen in Ralph Ince's films, particularly The Right Girl ( 1915 ), and by 1919 it was widely diffused in American films, but not in those made in Europe.

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

When the parents emerged from the bedroom a few minutes later, the maid greeted them quietly.

A few years later the dome fell in.

The audition was held a few minutes later in somebody's apartment.

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

A few minutes later, FBI agent Francis Crosby, talking fast, eased up the ramp to the plane, unarmed.

A few moments later her hands were trembling and her brow had contracted with anxiety and dismay.

Front legs are formed under the gill sac and hind legs become visible a few days later.

A few days later, the tail is reabsorbed, due to the higher thyroxine concentration required for this to take place.

He soon lost consciousness and bled to death a few minutes later.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

A few years later Whitney and his American contemporaries succeeded in introducing the relevant concepts ( interchangeable parts, tool-path control via machine tools and jigs, transfer of skill to the equipment, allowing use of semi-skilled or unskilled machine operators ) to American firearm-manufacture.

This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

When Charles left Germany a few weeks later, Albert renewed his depredations in Franconia.

A few years later, he received a few shares in T. T.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

The Athenian politician Aristides would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying ( according to Plutarch ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new members was to be.

He returned to academia a few years later as a professor at the University of Montpellier, where he stayed until his retirement in 1988.