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1  For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
3  He had held it between his fingers for as long as thirty seconds.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
4  The telescreen was giving forth an ear-splitting whistle which continued on the same note for thirty seconds.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  A game of darts which was going on at the other end of the room interrupted itself for perhaps as much as thirty seconds.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  Within thirty seconds, it occurred to him, O'Brien would be back at his interrupted and important work on behalf of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
7  Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
8  If he could get her at a table by herself, somewhere in the middle of the room, not too near the telescreens, and with a sufficient buzz of conversation all round--if these conditions endured for, say, thirty seconds, it might be possible to exchange a few words.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
9  But there had been a moment--he did not know how long, thirty seconds, perhaps--of luminous certainty, when each new suggestion of O'Brien's had filled up a patch of emptiness and become absolute truth, and when two and two could have been three as easily as five, if that were what was needed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2