(1) A single fusion event occurs on the nanometer scale and takes less than a millisecond .(2) Although she had lived here for about two years now she still took a few milliseconds to find the light switch to turn on the light.(3) If the team applied just a few volts across the heart muscle for a few tens of milliseconds , a second, smaller spiral appeared.(4) This is a relatively short time period often measured in milliseconds .(5) The Earth's rotation is slowing down by a few milliseconds a year, due to the moon's gravity.(6) Competitors will now have to keep the foil's tip on their opponent's target area for a whole 15 milliseconds instead of two milliseconds .(7) A large variety of gamma-ray burst durations are known, from a few milliseconds to thousands of seconds.(8) The hard disk operates in milliseconds , or thousandths of a second, because it is mechanical.(9) Both types of bursts last only a few milliseconds to about a minute.(10) Gamma ray bursts last only from a few milliseconds to about one minute.(11) In this context, time is measured in milliseconds - thousandths of a second.(12) Tunable lasers that switch in nanoseconds rather than milliseconds are in prototype.(13) Twenty milliseconds is a natural limit for the coherent integration period.(14) Disturbances on a large power grid propagate through the system in milliseconds to fractions of a second.(15) Seek time is measured in milliseconds and the fastest drives can access data in around 5ms.(16) I infer that an atomic clock on the Moon would gain 8 milliseconds per year relative to one on Earth.