She was going to have to do something, anything to throw her attacker off guard for a crucial second.
Jack settled back against the wall, one hand gripping a lucky chunk of coral that he happened to find at the last crucial second.
He said it was difficult to tell how far into the crucial nine seconds the trains collided.
This delay can cost crucial seconds when it comes to catching the pack.
The uniforms made them freeze for a crucial few seconds, but they realized something was wrong.
It happened so fast that Blade wasted crucial seconds in staring.
But when she launched her attack I'd hesitated, for those crucial few seconds.
Gabriel was looking the wrong way at the crucial second.
She'd lost concentration for a crucial few seconds.
It's those crucial seconds when the mother and father can't watch.