blink of an eye

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"It was done in the blink of an eye… I don't think we had another gig for a couple of months, I didn't really know where it was going to go from there."

From BBC • May 16, 2026

V1298 Tau is remarkably young by astronomical standards, at just about 20 million years old -- a blink of an eye compared to the Sun's 4.5-billion-year history.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

Henley’s trick is to change dresses in the blink of an eye.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

If analysts are correct, Nvidia’s Ebitda will expand 30-fold in what feels like the blink of an eye.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Too often we are resigned to what happens in the blink of an eye.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell