The general feeling was that you could never implement a leap hour as they are much harder to do than the leap seconds, and if you can't cope with leap seconds, it would be much harder to cope with a leap hour.
His strategy was to win the last 30 seconds but you can't win a fight in the last 30 seconds.
The camera won't shoot until three seconds later, giving you ample time to crack that perfect smile.
Melanie Amaro's thumpin' dance version of Adele's "Someone Like You" (help, I'm dying inside) featured the "American Horror Story" crossover none of us ever expected: Dozens of black-suited Rubber Men dancing robotically around her as she angrily belted out sad and pensive lyrics for...oh, I don't know, maybe 45 seconds?
' She sat for about three seconds but didn't think we were crazy for asking it.
And now, thanks to instant-reading technology, you don't even need to wait 15 seconds to start up the device: "I press, I read, it's instant... it's a book!"
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That's good news, seeing as the Pine Trail-based Eee PC 1005PE we just reviewed didn't offer much of a performance benefit over the older Diamondville chips and definitely couldn't bust through the first few seconds of a YouTube HD clip.
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This time, the timing can't slip even by a few seconds, because then the SpaceX vehicle would end up in a less than optimum trajectory and lack essential fuel reserves to be able to catch up and dock with the space station.
Just in case you didn't know what was going on three seconds after the movie started.
"It didn't last more than eight or nine seconds, then it disappeared, " said Guy, a spokesman for Sussex County, Delaware.
"When you engineer a technology-filled, all-electric mini car that goes from zero-to-60 mph in less than eight seconds, customers won't miss the gas, " said Mark Reuss, president, General Motors North America.
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They didn't let the Bulls get closer than four until Butler hit a 3-pointer with 31.1 seconds left in the third quarter, and Chicago couldn't tie the score until Deng hit an 8-footer early in the fourth.
Most cramps last for a few seconds or minutes and don't come back.
Don't try to be funny by playing thirty seconds of your favorite song or talk with a mouthful of food.
"The F900EXR delivers the impressive AF speed that consumers have been demanding, and with speeds as fast as 0.05 seconds, photography enthusiasts won't be disappointed, " said David Troy, director of marketing, Digital Cameras, Electronic Imaging Division, FUJIFILM North America Corporation.
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But the Heat couldn't have scripted a better final 6.9 seconds of the half.
Ms. BILL BASTONE (Founder, TheSmokingGun.com): Honestly, it was the first 15 seconds of the first page didn't look right to me.
For his tourbillon, the watch that put Journe on the map, Journe added so-called deadbeat seconds: The second hand doesn't glide but hops from one second to the next.
The first meeting between the two schools was an instant classic, a one-possession game in the final 30 seconds even though South Carolina didn't score again after Ashley Bruner's bucket with 2:52 left tied it at 69.
Have fun, don't take it too seriously, forget who won five seconds after it's over.
They still didn't say a word to each other, and within seconds, he'd stood up.
It didn't take us long to forgive them, about 30 seconds right after we got ours.
Dupuis netted the Penguins' lone goal only 34 seconds later, but the Penguins couldn't build momentum off of it.
"It wasn't a great swim, I wanted to go seven seconds quicker, but it's a gold medal, " he said after the race.
Given that Raikkonen couldn't pass, it gave Button a margin of 13 seconds, which he was able to simply monitor for the rest of the afternoon.
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.
Mr. Samit: The big guys who were out there 10 years ago worked peer-to-peer, so if you did a business call with someone in China they didn't really care if the image froze up every few seconds.
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