"It will give me a few extra seconds to pray."

They'd spend five minutes, maybe more, doing that to save themselves an extra twenty seconds' walk.

An extra second could mean the difference between success and failure.

Your skills would give us the few extra seconds that could make a difference.

This took precious extra seconds but was always worth the effort.

Those extra two seconds would turn out to impact the outcome of the game.

"I needed the extra 30 seconds to rest," he said.

"You gave us the extra seconds we needed to get away."

I took a few extra seconds to study my putt.

He gave me a few extra seconds to digest that.