Now the online travel agency can handle 1, 000 queries per second, troll through 18 billion different offers with 20 different parameters and return a response in less than one second.

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It takes less than one second to launch the camera from the lock screen and the camera's autofocus locks in on your subject in under a second, to take nearly unlimited continuous shots simply by holding the shutter button.

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As the anticipated time-to-impact decreases, CMS prepares the car for sudden braking by moving the brake pads nearer to the brake disks, and finally, when the system concludes that a collision is less than one second away, it starts to apply the brakes itself.

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With continuous AF shooting as we moved towards a stationary target, it took ten seconds to get nine shots, or less than one frame per second.

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It can search half a billion documents in less than one-quarter of a second and handle millions of searches a day.

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Austrian Bert Grabsch, of Phonak, outsprinted Italy's Lorenzo Bernucci for second place, less than one minute behind Lunghi.

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Indeed, many Americans are in their second or third generations of jobs that earn less than the one they had before.

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Defense attorneys argued Rodriguez was defending himself when one of the men lunged at him and he had less than a second to respond.

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In Formula One today, the difference between first and 15th position is sometimes less than a second.

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Unexpected high temperature inside one of the Falcon 9 rocket's engines prompted an automated shutdown less than a second before liftoff.

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