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The phrase 'couple more seconds' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is generally used to express a short amount of time, and can be used in variety of contexts. For example, "Give me a couple more seconds to finish my presentation."
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"With direct mail, you have maybe a couple more seconds to get someone's attention".
I pick up, wait a couple more seconds, and there's her wonderful voice, asking when I'm coming home.
There are plenty of more subtle ways to effect a race result: hold Massa in the pits for a couple more seconds, tell Massa he needs to switch to a fuel saving mode, etc. Ferrari don't seem to care or realise how negative the fans' reaction to such simplistic cheating is.
Now if you'll allow me a couple more seconds, here is something that is really ironic about the multiverse theory.
"He decided the audience needed a couple more seconds to drink it in," said Marty Stock, management director at Coors' advertising agency, Foote, Cone & Belding-Chicago.
I stared at her for a couple more seconds before accepting that my evening as a master pickup artist/home wrecker had been an utter failure.
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Even one more converted score allied to a couple more first-half penalties in Rome would have made a potentially massive difference to the overall equation.
The A's got a couple of hits in the first inning, a couple more in the second; Randy Velarde smacked a two-run single, cutting the Yankees' lead to 6-2.
He's 6 feet tall, claims 220 pounds but probably weighs a couple more, has 4.49-second speed in the 40-yard dash, broke a long touchdown run in his first game as a freshman, rushed for more than 1,000 yards last season, hails from San Diego, thought hard about going to UCLA and drives a sports utility vehicle, which is the transportation choice of Collegiate California.
"I thought we were very clinical today again and we might have had a couple more in the first half.
"Early in the morning the ball does a little bit and hopefully we can use that to our advantage and nip out a couple more, so the first two hours will be very important".
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