But a good half of each twenty-second increment was typically taken up with preliminaries and formalities.
It was said that the Turkish government had promised to give him a twenty-second house plus ten kilograms of gold if he won again.
Twenty second-half minutes had passed before the crowd witnessed a truly threatening attempt at goal.
For those movies, a projection speed of about twenty-two frames a second is right.
But, starting in the nineteen-thirties, music soundtracks were added to silents, and the films needed to move through the projector at twenty-four frames a second, so that the optical sound reader could handle the music track.
During the twenty-five years after the Second World War, that gap closed considerably.
The album opens with "Pistolas at Twenty Paces, " a fierce, 30-second, rattling guitar strum which mimics the tense soundtracks of the twenty-pace gunfights in old westerns.
If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.
The second decade of the twenty-first century will be the decade of the brain.
The world was burning through twenty-three thousand gallons of oil every second.
An old Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was twenty-five years ago, but the second best time is now.
Twenty three million shares were traded, making it the second-most active stock on the Nasdaq today.
Twenty hours later, the couple arrived from New York in Medina, Islam's second-holiest city after Mecca.
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