Sentence examples for a blink of time from inspiring English sources

In a blink of time, a sliver of space opened between Philadelphia forward Joffrey Lupul and the Rangers' net.

For a blink of time, as we joined that vast army of women jugglers balancing love and work, it seemed inevitable that the group would never endure.

While the College of Natural Resources' 150-year history is a blink of time from an evolutionary perspective, CNR's land-grant mission has placed it at the forefront of agricultural genetic engineering since the beginning.

But it became intolerable when astronomers declared that the earth is but one of a hundred billion trillion other planets, and when geologists demonstrated that recorded history is but a blink of time -- a microsecond of the second of earth's existence.

That pushes back the earliest star-forming days of the universe to within a few hundred million years of the big bang--a blink of an eye in astronomical time.

But those numbers are mute on matters of actual human experience; they have nothing to say about the blink of time in which a petite grieving mother registers as a threat, or an inebriated nineteen-year-old motorist intimidates a fifty-four-year-old man who has a shotgun.

In 2000, Mr. Perry was on a 90-minute trip from San Antonio to Austin, a blink of an eye in Texas time.

Previous studies have suggested that the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, emerged at between 1,500 and 20,000 years ago, a blink of an eye in evolutionary time.

In just 400,000 years – a blink of an eye in geologic time – carbon dioxide levels dropped, temperatures plunged and ice sheets formed over what was then the lush continent of Antarctica.

A potential downside of the nuclear signal is that it will have decayed away within 100,000 years – a blink of the eye in geological time.

A hundred miles inland from today's East Coast of the United States, seashells can be dug from ancient beaches that are three million years old, a blink of an eye in geologic time.