Then came the hit with Neneh Cherry, Seven Seconds, which was nominated for a Grammy.
Just about seven seconds away from where he was singing was another African giant, Youssou N'Dour.
It takes just seven seconds for the nicotine released by a lozenge to impact on the brain.
It took less than seven seconds to open iPhoto and generate high-resolution thumbnail images for 183 12-megapixel images.
Luminate gets users to stay on a website longer, adding an average of seven seconds per user per image.
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Beethoven establishes the key, presents a main theme and even offers a development section all within the first seven seconds.
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The smallest margin of victory was back in 1982 when Condor of Bermuda pipped Apollo by just seven seconds.
It has to be more than something that occupies seven seconds on television or two lines in a print story.
Peterhansel, driving a Mitsubishi, completed the 370km run from Bamako to Kayes, Mali, in three hours, 30 minutes and seven seconds.
Changeywo was seven seconds ahead of Jo Pavey in the women's event while Chebii repeated his victory of 12 months ago.
"It wasn't a great swim, I wanted to go seven seconds quicker, but it's a gold medal, " he said after the race.
Twenty-seven seconds later, on the ensuing power play, Washington defenseman Mike Green ripped a low slap shot past Lundqvist for the winning goal.
Trailing 60-56, Dimosthenis Ntikoudis gave Greece hope when he hit a three-pointer with less than seven seconds left but Soragna then made two free throws.
Drivers in 1990 cars would fight crushing G-forces as they lurched from zero to 125 mph and back to zero in less than seven seconds.
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Semenya burst on to the world stage when she ran 1.56.72 in Bambous last month, smashing her previous personal best by more than seven seconds.
Men only think about sex once every two hours - not every seven seconds, as is commonly believed, according to a survey of 5, 000 adult males.
Fifty-seven seconds after the shot went in, the official raised his right arm above his head and slammed it downward, mimicking a shot going into a basketball.
The Pioneers' Chase Carraro won the faceoff and Denver coach Bill Tierney called a timeout with seven seconds left, but the Pioneers couldn't get a last shot off.
N'dour, best known to western audiences for his 1994 hit Seven Seconds with Neneh Cherry, first made his name outside Africa working with Peter Gabriel in the 1980s.
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Deng's free throw at the other end with seven seconds on the clock proved to be enough when Lorant missed a shot on the buzzer to tie the game.
For such a big vehicle, the Q7 feels light on its feet, and the 4.2-liter V-8 provides plenty of oomph, accelerating the beast to 60 miles an hour in seven seconds.
As much as I like the coolness and efficiency of social media, I also know that the coolness and efficiency of great brand lines take more than seven seconds to establish.
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Cancellara has increased his overall advantage to 33 seconds from Team Columbia's Tony Martin, with Armstrong a further seven seconds away in third position and Contador down to fourth place -- 59 seconds adrift of Cancellara.
The result was a machine that fills 16 ounces in about five seconds if the water is at room temperature, or about seven seconds if it has to meander through refrigeration pipes on the way out.
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The elder brother ended with a time of 29 minutes and seven seconds in the 10km run -- just over a minute and a half slower than compatriot Mo Farah who won the 10, 000 meters on Saturday.
According to DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people) officials, the PowerBox puts out a very ungolf-cart-like 300 horsepower and accelerates to 60 miles per hour in seven seconds, while still generating exceedingly low emissions.
Unfortunately, at about the same time that this statement was being made, a video was being put up on YouTube in which, seven seconds in, a policeman steps daintily over a circle of protestors, who do nothing to impede him, before dousing them with aerosol condiment.
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But right, if you could get a car that could get 40 to 45 miles to the gallon and go as fast as my Subaru, which can do zero to 60 in under seven seconds, and feel like a lot of fun to drive, boy, would you have something, and that's clearly something the industry is hoping they can get.
Farah performed superbly at the event in Birmingham, slashing his own British 3, 000m indoor record by 6.52 seconds in clocking seven minutes 34.47 seconds.
Meanwhile, Saif Shaheen Saeed, the Kenyan-born Qatari, failed in his attempt on his own world record in the 3000m steeplechase, coming home almost three seconds off the pace in seven minutes 56.54 seconds.
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