Each letter was shown for half a second and followed by a blank screen for two seconds before the next letter appeared.

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Brooklyn stayed ahead from there, though Chicago got within two with 15 seconds left before Watson closed it out with two free throws.

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'' Two seconds later, just before we would have stalled and started a death spiral to earth, the jet's control stick moved forward, and the airplane began to pick up speed, averting the stall.

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During the flight, father-of-two Mr Connery dropped for three seconds before his suit "started to fly".

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Allow two or three seconds to go by before gradually changing your body language to (more or less) reflect that of the other person.

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That winning run continued into Sunday as the Frenchman won the opening two tests of the day to extend that lead to 31.1 seconds before easing back his pace to eventually claim a winning margin of 24.3 seconds.

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Pick out two or three in each quadrant and look at each face for a good five seconds before moving on to the next.

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Then they went on a 18-4 spurt late in the second, turning a two-point deficit into a 12-point lead before Pierce's driving basket in the closing seconds cut it to 53-43 at halftime.

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Barrichello was three seconds behind Hamilton before the McLaren driver's pit stop and just over six seconds clear by the time the two cars emerged from the pits.

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They were leading 59-58 after that shot, and they were up by two before Boozer converted a three-point play off a neat bounce pass from Taj Gibson in the closing seconds to send Chicago into the fourth quarter with a 69-68 lead.

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