But how was he supposed to say so, with only smoking rubble left where a proud starship had stood mere heartbeats before?

In a mere heartbeat of time, the entire car glazed with ice.

He saw the blow that felled him coming a mere heartbeat before it landed; it caught him across the side of his neck.

Then - for the merest heartbeat - the old hunter saw a veiled woman standing close by.

Rising to a crouch, Blade took a mere heartbeat to note his enemy's position.

The temperature began to fall and grow chilly in mere heartbeats.

A mere heartbeat passed before he crushed her lips with his own.

Only moments ago, a mere few heartbeats in the past, the wizard Vilkata had been, as he thought, on the brink of triumph.

Only now," the note ended, "do I understand that Moonstone put us a mere heartbeat away from a nuclear war.

In mere heartbeats she began to feel that she was in fact leaving her body.