GRAMMAR

I am working on submitting a paper, having a minor grammar struggle here.

"We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and as few as 2.5 seconds for a given probe."

Should it be: "We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and in as few as 2.5 seconds for a given probe."

(Added an 'in' after the 'and').

Thanks.

>>4

I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying. It takes them 10 seconds or less to determine whether instances are co-resident, and in some cases it takes them as few as 2.5 seconds. It's not two separate times, it's just giving a range of how long it takes. "or" wouldn't make any sense (because taking 2.5 seconds is still shorter than 10 seconds).