Sentences with phrase «less than the blink of an eye»

This is supposed to be a being who has always existed and always will exist, so what you make a big deal of was less than a blink of the eye in his existence.

This is the strongest confirmation yet of cosmic inflation theories, which say the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye.

Scientists will study the interactions of neutrinos in the detector, looking to better understand changes the particles undergo as they travel across the country in less than the blink of an eye.

For maximum vehicle performance, shift times should be less than the blink of an eye.

Over the last decade, which is less than a blink of an eye in the history of the human race, it's all changed.

But it rarely gives you a head start because the institutions have the computer power that figures out all the possibilities and spits out buy and sell orders in less than the blink of an eye.

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This led cells to completely specialise in less than a million generations — an evolutionary blink of an eye (PLoS Computational Biology, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pcbi.1000805).

It found similar - looking dead galaxies existed about 10 billion years ago and, by careful examination of their light, showed they were actively building stars for less than a billion years — a blink of the eye compared with our Milky Way, which is still making stars after more than 12 billion years.

NGC 1333 is a star cluster populated with many young stars that are less than 2 million years old — a blink of an eye in astronomical terms for stars like these expected to burn for billions of years.

So the new networks will be able to transfer a high - resolution movie in two seconds and respond to requests in less than a hundredth of the time it takes to blink an eye.

However, Yakutian horses have adapted to the extremely cold temperatures in less than 800 years — a blink of the eye in terms of evolutionary adaptations.

MGM treated The Star as a sacrosanct entity, but Warner Bros.» was less starchy (perhaps due to the tolerant climate of the anarchistic animation unit), and knew a sense of fun was better than the maudlin practice of having young starlets like Judy Garland crooning to an 8x10 of Clark Gable (although contract players Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Craig Stevens, and Alan Hale have eye - blink cameos in the short).

This brief interruption of power literally takes less time than the blink of an eye, dips the front end of the vehicle and causes two simultaneous reactions:

In a lower return environment, the true tax deferral benefit of extending the average holding period of an investment from 2 years to 5 years — chopping the portfolio turnover rate from 50 % down to 20 % — is actually less than 5 basis points, which can be made up in the blink of an eye through a lower cost investment change or a mere day's worth of relative returns (not to mention weeks, months, or years)!»

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.