If you want to see what this looks like, check out this video, showing children trying to resist the joys of eating a marshmallow, with the understanding that if they can just hold off a little longer, they will get an extra marshmallow.
As you tramp down the road there is always regret, always the thought that perhaps if you held on for a little longer things might go right.
To me, it's important that our troops finish the job there even if it requires him staying a little bit longer, I'd rather have the job that my husband has been doing over there completed before they come home.
Similarly, if you claim special deductions and credits, you may need to keep your records a little longer than normal (for example, if you file a claim for a loss from worthless securities or bad debt deduction, you should keep those records for 7 years).
The FIA's decision to appeal means Briatore, who is also co-owner of QPR Football Club, may have to wait a little longer to find out if he still has a route back to F1.
But it does suggest that plenty of lives might be saved if medics are willing to keep trying for a little bit longer.
If former client Satyam sues them too, PwC will have to wait a little while longer to mothball their damage control strategies.
The butcher had been a good man, friendly to her mother, always offering a kind word and picking out the best cuts for her, but his wife had been mean and silent as she took the money, and sometimes she had kept it a little longer in her hand, staring at it, as if she thought it might be some kind of foreign currency.
If I could only work a little bit faster, or the days were a little bit longer.
If they reach an agreement, it will conserve a shred of that old order for just a little longer.
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So it is unsurprising that much of the media - and many of you in the comments you leave here and on Twitter - say that it would be little short of a scandal if the bank's senior executives were to receive big pay awards when bonuses and longer-term performance rewards are decided early next month.
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