Terms for subject Cliche / convention containing секунда

Russian	English
за считанные секунды	within moments (Yet despite this massive search, wide circulation of fliers, and a reward that would reach $100,000, initially there were no leads at all. How is it that this boy could have so thoroughly disappeared within moments, mere feet from his parents in a public place, and no one had even seen anything? There were no witnesses, no clues, nothing. It was as if Michael Dunahee had just evaporated. (mysteriousuniverse.org) ART Vancouver)
за считанные секунды	within mere moments (It almost sounds impossible, yet within mere moments the school was engulfed by a wave of slurry waste that reached a height of around thirty-feet. Had the children and teachers been outside at the time, the likelihood is that they would have survived. Or, at least, many of them would have. mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver)