Following
Seconds
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- No radio program theatrically fakes dead air for nineteen seconds (the silence following the Grover's Mill massacre in Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds was only four or five seconds long).
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Other -
When the first train is riding on the John Galt Line, we are given the following bits of information, in three successive sentences: The train passes a signal light 'every few seconds'; The distance between each signal light and the next is two miles; The train is doing a hundred miles an hour.
Source: Literature / Atlas Shrugged -
The following year, they did the exact same thing in the FA Cup final, even being 3-2 down, except that they only had seconds left.
Source: Down to the Last Play
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