He waited for several seconds and opened the door.tatoeba
彼は１秒のほんの何分の１かでそれをした。
He did it in only a fraction of a second.tatoeba
彼は１００ｍを１１秒フラットで走った。
He ran 100 meters in 11 seconds flat.tatoeba
陣痛が約４５秒続きます。
My contractions last about forty-five seconds.tatoeba
Real voices: how native speakers say it
These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.
自分なら十秒で食べきれるよ
じぶんならじゅうびょうでたべきれるよI could eat it in ten seconds.
レジ打ちを任されて三秒で失格
れじうちをまかされてさんびょうでしっかくI was assigned to work the register and failed after three seconds.
僕はその見知らぬ名前を数十秒眺めたあと、道を戻って棟の反対側まで歩いていく。
ぼくはそのみしらぬなまえをすうじゅうびょうながめたあと、みちをもどってむねのはんたいがわまであるいていく。I gazed at the unfamiliar name for tens of seconds, then walked back and across to the opposite side of the building.