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I want to qualify something that lasts some seconds.

I am aware of 「暫{しばら}く」, 「少{しょう}々{しょう}」 and so on, but I am in a situation
where something explicitly lasts a certain amount of seconds, like, between 1
and 10 seconds.

Is 「何{なん}秒{びょう}かの～」 valid?

For instance, can I say:

> 何{なん}秒{びょう}かのビデオ
>
> A few-second video

Usually, this construction works, like 「何{なん}人{にん}かの～」, but I could not find
examples for seconds...
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Saying "some seconds"
You might want to consider using.

> 数秒(すうびょう)

It basically mean several seconds.  
You can also use 数分、数時間、数日 etc...

It might not explicitly say between 1 and 10 seconds, but it does somewhat
point out that it won't take over 1 minute.
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> 何人かの人は帰ってしまいました。  
>  Some (of them) have returned.

The use of "何人かの人は" means the speaker doesn't konw how many people has
returned but he(she) knows the fact that some has returned. So "何人かの人" doesn't
always equal to "数人の人."

When thousand of people have returned but we don't know the exact number of
people, we don't say "何人かの人が帰った。" "何人かの人" is usually used for several people.

"数秒のビデオ" is OK and the abbriviation of "撮影時間が数秒間のビデオ."

"何秒かのビデオ" indicates the speaker doesn't know how long the video is, but "何秒かの"
implies ten seconds, twenty seconds or fourty seconds. It must be less than
sixty seconds. If it is one hundred twenty seconds long video, we should say
"何分かのビデオ."
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