Is there any possible to limit only 10 message number from PHP imap_search() result for pagination purpose?

Question

I am working on a mailbox module, almost all kind of mailbox process were completed, finally, i set search functionality, search list is working well, but some searching keywords return huge number of msg_no from imap_search function, if it is return more number of msg_no it take long time, so i decide to make pagination in search results,

Here, i have search lot of results, there is no possibility to limit a number of msg_no from imap_search(); search function return all msg_no based on matched criteria

So kindly assist me to achieve those things