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# Sleep For A Duration
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Many languages allow you to sleep for a certain number of milliseconds. In
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those languages, you can give `500` or `1000` to the sleep function to
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sleep for half a second and a second respectively. In Go, the duration of a
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call to [`time.Sleep`](https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Sleep) is in
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nanoseconds. Fortunately, there are constants that make it easy to sleep in
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terms of milliseconds.
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For example, you can sleep for a half a second (500 milliseconds) like so:
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```go
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package main
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import (
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"time"
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)
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func main() {
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time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
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}
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```
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Other available time constants are `Nanosecond`, `Microsecond`, `Second`,
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`Minute`, `Hour`.
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