• The puck inched its way toward the line when Schenn swooped in with a split-second lunge with his stick and cleared it for the save.

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  • Maggie Harrison found the Oregon terroir, specifically the rocks, so compelling she made a split-second decision to move her family north and make wine there.

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  • Harten says he "made a split-second decision" to offer Sullenberger Runway 13, the closest runway, and contacted LaGuardia tower to clear the runways for an emergency.

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  • However, replays showed that the France scrum-half had recovered his hold of the ball a split-second before winger Thom, and referee George Clancy awarded a 5m scrum.

    BBC: France 22-13 Scotland

  • The main villains on these roads are usually the yellow minibuses, known as danfos, which can switch lanes in a split-second, sending nearby vehicles screeching to avoid them.

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  • Ref Jones - on the say-so of his touch judge - ruled that Chris O'Young had put his foot out of play a split-second before Thom Evans squeezed in.

    BBC: Glasgow 11-11 Munster

  • That makes it possible not just to skip to any point of a taped show in a split-second, but also to rewind live television: because hard disks are so fast, they can tape and play back at the same time.

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  • In particular, Smith, the Knicks' sixth man, continued his struggles, shooting just 1 for 6 over the first half. (He drilled a contested heave from half-court at the buzzer, but officials waved it off, saying it was a split-second too late.) The Knicks went into the break trailing 52-46 marking the fourth consecutive home playoff game the Knicks trailed at the half.

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  • After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.

    BBC: On the hunt with Hemingway

  • You can go from there to here in a split second -- just a little focus, right?

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  • These instinctive actions tend to matter more because they are actually a composite of numerous split-second decisions that impact relationships and future options.

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  • Journe had sold it last year, but now the oil inside was sticking--only a bit, but enough to throw the split-second calibrations slightly off.

    FORBES: Big Time

  • So most people end up offering a fifty-fifty split to the second person.

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  • McFarland in a four-run second inning during Wednesday's 10-7 loss to a Baltimore Orioles' split squad.

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  • Audemars Piguet breaks this rule by combining its Caliber 2885 self-winding split-second chronograph movement featuring a minute repeater, a perpetual calendar and a moon-phase indicator with the sporty 44mm Royal Oak Offshore case in brushed titanium with a black rubber strap.

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  • It had not piloted the A2 section - the second year of study - before the A-level was split into two parts in 2000.

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  • His quest for a second term has split his centre-left Democratic Revolutionary Party.

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  • This, surely, will please armies, air forces and sports teams, which require people to make split-second decisions based on a rich, wide visual field.

    ECONOMIST: Playing action games improves visual skills

  • Body language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second ability to recognize if a person or situation was benign or dangerous was often a matter of life or death.

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  • Was it worth the cost of my son's college tuition, which gave him entry to the magazine internship, to have his decision-making abilities honed by making split-second choices about whether to take the A train or the No. 3 train?

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  • Jeter was a split second slow out of the blocks and nearly caught Fraser-Pryce in the final meters, but the Jamaican leaned across the finish for the victory.

    WSJ: Menu

  • And while the new page-turning buttons--far smaller than those on the last model--are harder to press accidentally, they can require a split second longer to find with a thumb, momentarily interrupting the reading experience.

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  • "I couldn't have noticed the car any earlier - it appeared all of a sudden and I only saw it for a split second, " he said.

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  • The cover lot, made of pink gold, is a "split seconds" chronograph, so-called because it has not one, but two second hands and is capable of timing two different parts of a dramatic event, say, a high-stakes horse race or an auto rally.

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  • As Jay-Z and I approached each other our eyes met, and his lingered for a split second before drifting away.

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  • In a second blow to confidence, falling equity prices have revealed a scandal in the split capital investment-trust industry.

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  • It is amazing to behold the split-second timing of these operations, with jets regularly landing and taking off in such a small area.

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  • When the Heat and Pacers split the first four games of their second-round series last year, Miami rolled to a 115-83 home win in Game 5 and captured the series in six games.

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  • Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.

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  • But the referee had blown the final whistle a split second before and it was Livi who were able to breathe a sigh of relief after winning their first-ever European tie.

    BBC: Livi survive late fright

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