Sentence examples for although precious from inspiring English sources

The worries about the outlook for the global economy have pushed mining shares lower, although precious metal miners are shining on hopes that the Fed decision will weaken the dollar - which is already happening - and lift gold prices.

And, although precious little has been heard of the EU's plans of a few years back to create a 60,000-strong rapid-reaction force, that presence has slowly and inexorably been growing.The EU has been increasingly active on the diplomatic front as well.

True, publishers also provide marketing (although precious little, for most books) and the imprimatur of quality (you've read some bad published books, but you have no idea how much better they were than most of what festers on publishers' slush piles).

When asked about it, the government's lawyer, Boies, admitted that he had presented no new evidence, but claimed that he was satisfied he had proven his case although precious little in the way of economic justification had been entered into the record.

Although abdicating precious-metals, the presented accumulator shows an open circuit voltage of 0.81 V and a maximum power density of 0.66 mW cm−2 which is comparable or even superior to former precious-metal based cells.

Although non-precious catalysts that can efficiently catalyze oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution have been developed, electrocatalysts with high bifunctional activity for both oxygen evolution and reduction are needed.

Mbonimpa wasn't just any old human rights activist (although there are precious few of them left in Burundi).

That period and place are known to have been pivotal in human prehistory, although they left precious few traces.

Although the most precious objects will be out of reach, much of the apartment will be open to exploration.

Montgomery had claimed a period working under Ben Johnson's former coach Charlie Francis had dramatically improved his start, although there was precious little sign of it here.

I am not surprised -- no one in the vintage world has met Precious, although she still lives at Gagé d'Amour, the house that Jack and Precious moved into in 1970.