An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

At McDonald's, customers will spend on average 3 minutes and 9 seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

five minutes after that, we placed either bacon or bread on the surface for 5, 30 or 60 seconds,and then measured the number of bacteria transferred to the food.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

It depends on just how many bacteria can make it from floor to food in a few seconds and just how dirty the floor is.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

That's about 10 seconds more than the industry average — and a lot slower than a decade ago, according to the study, which was commissioned by QSR, an industry trade publication.

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

They reported bacteria were transferred from the tiles to the cookies within five seconds, but didn't report the specific amount of bacteria that made it from the tiles to the food.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Today, a photo copier can do the work in seconds.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

So I've just got to do my best, and take a couple of seconds to look through the first few lines before I launch into something.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Her owner Mike Holden panicked and celled the coastguard of Cornwall, who turned up in seconds.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Realisation will probably set in seconds after you've clicked "send".

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Runners range from four year old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ