The difference between the gold medal and no metal at all in the Olympic games is often a matter of a split second.
It's clear what has happened: he's a striker in a dangerous position towards the end of a game and, in a split second, the ball has missed everybody, bounced to him and instinct has kicked in.
"One of the things the public has to understand, an individual wielding a knife at you at about 20 feet can be on top of you in a split second, " he said.
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.
Thanks to technology, sports fans have the luxury of second and third guessing umpires who have a split second to make a call.
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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.
These instinctive actions tend to matter more because they are actually a composite of numerous split-second decisions that impact relationships and future options.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He's more interested in the bits and pieces of music, even when they span only a split second.
"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.
As the government set about creating a brave new world of motorways, Kinneir and Calvert were given the job of making signs that could be clearly read in a split second.
The Ospreys seized the initiative at the start of the second half with a Wallace offside allowing Biggar to split the posts again, and Munster had to scramble back to deny Andrew Bishop a try after a Mike Phillips break.
Yet unmarried couples can split children on their tax returns, giving them the greater value of a first and second child credit for their fourth or fifth child.
It had not piloted the A2 section - the second year of study - before the A-level was split into two parts in 2000.
This machine is a collision sensor, which knew in a split second to activate your automobile air bag and cushion the impact of your collision with the inside of the car.
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"You hear it for a split second, and tune it out, unless it's one of those songs you really like, " said Brooks, 23.
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.
It is amazing to behold the split-second timing of these operations, with jets regularly landing and taking off in such a small area.
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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