1.   And if your captain is expert at positioning the boat, you may get a few precious extra seconds to boot.

2.   Both were running their second marathons and this bit of stumbling inexperience cost them precious seconds as they stopped to retrieve the fallen bottles.

3.   Few viewers knew anything about these upstarts so they had to spend precious seconds attempting to explain themselves.

4.   He peeked at the scoreboard, saw that the precious seconds were fewer than three and quickly dribbled right.

5.   He needed to stop wasting precious seconds, needed to find some way to stop feeling and start thinking.

6.   He stepped from the plane and flew, for a few precious seconds.

7.   McNown then wasted six precious seconds calling a play at the line.

8.   Soon I was once again spending precious extra seconds of dialing time immersed in second thoughts over my telephone activities.

9.   Soon, instead of wasting precious seconds overanalyzing in the pocket, Chandler was making quick decisions and throws.

10.   That bought enough precious seconds to dive under the truck.