Small units of time

Usage examples of milliseconds.

Measured by gigabit time, it was well over ten-to-the-ninth milliseconds, which is about as much time, by meat standards, as my whole meat life had been before I was vastened.

His peripheral vision monitor program indexed the figure striding down the corridor towards him milliseconds before his neural nanonics crashed.

After many milliseconds of listening to my attempts at description and discussion and metaphor—and a lot of incomprehension—what they’ve said was something like, “Oh, yeah, now I get it!

Have at least fifteen, maybe eighteen hundred milliseconds before Klara finishes saying what nice surprise is to see you again.

It took many, many milliseconds before they took the next step, and a lot longer than that before they could put it into effect.

Albert and I went round and round that for thousands of milliseconds, and there simply was no other explanation.

While my doppel was delivering that interminably long first speech—six thousand milliseconds it took!

But, oh, how many milliseconds it took for them to do it, while I waited on tenterhooks for the next step.

Long and long ago—oh, something like ten-to-the-eleventh milliseconds ago—I was really, really screwed up.

It is roughly 4,000,000,000 milliseconds, and we spent them the way our distinguished predecessors did.

The Robinette Broadhead of ten-to-the-twentieth milliseconds from now will not be the same as the Robinette Broadhead of today.

I took, oh, maybe eight or nine milliseconds to—well, to do what Essie would have called “be gloopy,” but what I thought of as pondering what he had said.

Even so, his response had been woefully sloppy in an arena where milliseconds was the most precious currency.

Within five milliseconds it had shrunk to nothing, taking the starship with it.

It took six milliseconds to expand from its initial subatomic size out to fifty-seven metres in diameter.