He lost by less than one second.

他以不到一秒钟的差距输了比赛。

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The researchers tested four contact times - less than one second and five, 30 and 300 seconds.

研究者们还测试了四种接触时长：不足一秒钟、5秒、30秒和300秒。

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The average response time of the system shall be less than one second with up to 1,000 simultaneous users.

系统的平均响应时间在多至1000个并发用户时应小于一秒。

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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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