instants

The electronic variety can wipe out entire databases in instants.

March « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

The electronic variety can wipe out entire databases in instants.

The Illusion of Permanence « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

It often got out of hand: possible stories sprouted from the recalled instants … [and] turned unnoticeably into a dream, whereby the narrative went completely haywire and I became but a confused character within it, unable to escape the plot.

California Literary Review 2009

It often got out of hand: possible stories sprouted from the recalled instants … [and] turned unnoticeably into a dream, whereby the narrative went completely haywire and I became but a confused character within it, unable to escape the plot.

California Literary Review 2009

× 365 instants, that is 1/180th of a second, longer than it was at the beginning.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

The lighting flickered, the Tzenkethi glowing brightly in the instants of darkness.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

In the couple of instants it took La Forge to calculate where the impact would be, and how many people would die, the ship had somehow slowed to a near halt with full-impulse braking.

Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

Tyler Hunt took a few deep breaths in the instants between his stun grenade dematerializing and the transporter beam sweeping him across the void after it.

Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

The lighting flickered, the Tzenkethi glowing brightly in the instants of darkness.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

But few instants were required, when, abruptly shifting the double horizontal rudders forward and astern, he shot upward on the tense and straining plane and out of the pit.

Winged Blackmail 2010