The phrase "a precise idea of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express a clear and accurate understanding of a concept or situation.
Example: "To solve the problem effectively, we need to have a precise idea of the requirements."
Alternatives: "a clear understanding of" or "an accurate perception of".
The chair is no longer extant, but with a bit of digging and dusting we can recover a precise idea of what it looked like, and place it in a precisely identifiable house in Westminster, where Jonson lived his last years – corpulent and half-paralysed with a stroke, but still prodigiously writing – and where he died in 1637 at the age of 66.
Darío entertained a precise idea of how to do this.
"It was a pretty strong move, so he has to have a precise idea of why he did it".
"Now we have a precise idea of the budget and we have to stick to it," said the prime minister Costas Simitis.
But the utility companies have never had a precise idea of what the temperatures are, or where their lines are in relation to obstructions below.
August 30, 2013 Obama says he's made no decision, but Kerry's speech made it sound like the administration has a precise idea of the military action it's heading toward.
Multiple comparison is the essence of biology and provides us with a very powerful observation tool, especially when one lacks a precise idea on the nature of forces that shaped the observed diversity.
Here again we need to articulate something that Bridgman already did imply: not all instrumental operations are measurement operations as such (for instance, we may know how to make iron melt without thereby obtaining any precise idea of the temperature at which that happens).
It's a pretty cool option for road-trippers who want a really precise idea of where they are at any given time, plus a way for folks out there running carputers in their dash to slim things down a bit.
As our case series was large enough to allow it, in order to have a more precise idea of onset age in relation to a subject's age we carried out a distribution analysis by five-year age groups, which in our opinion was more adequate than age distribution by decades to better detect the likelihood of childhood and elderly onset.
Those were the days when a university degree automatically guaranteed a successful career or at least an acceptable income, when the freshmen already had a fairly precise idea of their career path, when most of the graduates remained in one profession for a lifetime and when jobs were passed on from father to son.
