None of that mattered when seconds counted for escape or capture.
Carlisle used the elevator, conscious of the fact that time was slipping through his fingers, driven by a sense that even seconds counted now.
Every second could count.
He lobbed a bomb over the traverse, counted the five and a half seconds before it exploded.
The NBA later admitted that the play actually took 5.7 seconds and the basket in question should not have counted.
They just obeyed, knowing that seconds counted if they wanted the woman back alive.
This was the only way, he felt sure of it, and seconds counted.
Khonsu knew that every second would count when they arrived on Abydos.
"I'm not getting any younger, and every second was counting on my clock."
The Germans can come without much warning, and then every second will count.