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With Blatche clearly in pain on the court, play continued in the other direction, and it wasn't until the Wizards called a 20-second timeout that athletic trainers were able to tend to him.
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Wizards Coach Flip Saunders shortly thereafter called a 20-second timeout, at which time trainers attended to Blatche on the court.
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Butler called a 20-second time-out so Cornette could change.
Underdawgs David Woods 2010
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Just to see how moronic people can be, however, I decided to search for something nobody could possibly be opposed to, and I came across a 20-second video of baby pandas playing on a slide in the snow.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: The Questionable Genius of Disliking Baby Pandas Todd Hartley 2011
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Just to see how moronic people can be, however, I decided to search for something nobody could possibly be opposed to, and I came across a 20-second video of baby pandas playing on a slide in the snow.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: The Questionable Genius of Disliking Baby Pandas Todd Hartley 2011
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The app's 20-second delay feature heightens verisimilitude.
You Gotta Believe: Comparing Santa Video Chats Elizabeth Garone 2011
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Dreams of overall victory at the Vuelta a España came crashing down for Team Sky under a lethal onslaught from Juanjo Cobo Geox-TMC, who tore away from the tandem of Wiggins and Froome with 5km to go on the Angliru and turned a 55-second deficit into a 20-second lead
The Sky is falling: Angliru kicks the legs out from under Bradley Wiggins and Christopher Froome 2011
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Tjallingii never got more than a 20-second gap however, and the remaining front group of only about 26 riders was intact when it exited the highway toward the finish.
Mark Renshaw sprints to win and into lead at Tour of Qatar 2011
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CRAFT: But here's the irony of Pecha Kucha: As TV news shifts ever closer to entertainment, and images flash by in a second or two, Pecha Kucha's 20-second slides actually force the viewer to focus and think, says Dytham.
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A 20-second hand wash with soap and warm water is much more effective removing viruses.
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