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It used to say At the third stroke it will be nine, fifty seven and fifty seconds - pip, pip, pip; then At the third stroke it will be nine, fifty eight precisely - pip, pip, pip; thus giving you the exact time every ten seconds. Nowadays you have to dial 123 on a BT phone, and the name of BT is introduced into the announcements - rather ...
only refer to an exact time. What the time is does not matter. I would not use o'clock other than after a whole hour, unless you want to be redundant. top and bottom of the hour are a different issue. These refers to the position of the minute hand on an analog clock. I have only heard 'high' in respect to high noon. Not midnight.
You would probably say "one oh two" not "two past one" and "one twenty six" rather than "twenty six past one", even when reading an analog clock. The former construction is customary for 10, 20, 40 and 50. For 1:30 you can say either "one thirty", "half past one". "One to ten" sounds strange since it suggests counting.
2. Near Real Time-A delay of 2~10 seconds is expected, however, exact definition depends on SLA between the involved parties. Facebook works on near real time mode. 3. Offline Mode or Batch Processing-The data is updated via files to the database, exact definition depends on SLA between the involved parties. In general time delay is in hours ...
In this case, It was a few seconds means A few seconds passed. The construction employs the dummy or expletive *it*, and can be generalized to indicate the ‘presence’ of any extent of time or space: It was several years before he realized that she had told him the exact truth. It was nearly a hundred yards to the finish line when he felt a ...
Two of the same kind connected or considered together. (informal) A small number. According to OED: two people or things of the same sort considered together: 'a couple of girls were playing marbles'. [treated as singular or plural] two people who are married or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually:
Here, you are talking about the timing of an event. In fact, the duration stating the time. So, it would be... 1500-1600 hr. Because you are actually telling - 1500 hr to 1600 hr. One of the references I found is here. Use plural if you are talking about the number of hours. Say... The event will run for 3 hours. Examples using 'hrs'
That was like x seconds (or any other amount of time) can mean it took approximately this amount of time. As several other answers already point out in this case it is probably used with a different intention, to indicate that the time passed was very short. An alternate example:
Timing is rarely used in good speech to specify an exact time; but, many people use the word timing in less-than-good speech. So, if you used timing, keep in mind that you might get a response like "sometime Wednesday" or "after we get ten candidates to interview". When you use time, you will more likely get a response like "3 PM Wednesday the ...
Noon is at 12:00 PM. Afternoon is from 12:01 PM to around 5:00 PM. Evening is from 5:01 PM to 8 PM, or around sunset. Night is from sunset to sunrise, so from 8:01 PM until 5:59 AM. This is just a general outline - it's more common to categorize these times based upon one's activities.