Within a few milliseconds, I had short sold a very large quantity of Apple stock.

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This means that many web requests will never leave the extended infrastructure of AWS, reducing transit times to only a few milliseconds.

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Switching times are just a few milliseconds irrespective of the ambient temperature.

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Others are demanding an end to some favorite practices of high-frequency traders, like offering bids for shares that last only a few milliseconds.

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The first generation of the capacitive panels has proved to be a little balky, responding a few milliseconds slower than iPhone natives are used to.

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The whole system hums along at 60fps now, and while the difference of a few milliseconds might sound like small potatoes, it becomes glaringly apparent the moment you run Jelly Bean next to an ICS device.

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Banks will pay serious bucks to the first guy who can trim, to milliseconds from a few seconds, the time it takes to zap money around the globe or approve a Visa transaction.

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