Sentence examples for becoming precious from inspiring English sources

Having read in the Talk of the Town a squib to the effect that even a "stodgy" old building like Sloane's was becoming precious because like practically everything else on 5th Ave. it was "doomed".

Their weekends are becoming more precious.

Around the world, wheat is becoming a precious commodity.

And it can be difficult to spread the word about a new novel, with books pages like these becoming increasingly precious.

With employer-provided pensions going the way of the typewriter and pay telephones, the income from Social Security is becoming more precious by the day.

And today, he said, as ever more text is confined to the screen, the finely printed word is becoming a precious commodity.

Like other natural resources, it is becoming more precious as climate change disrupts supplies and demand increases because of the growing global population.

It is also about time management, and time is becoming more precious in an era of bigger, stronger, fitter athletes pounding the ball with new-age rackets and new-age strings.

"In an era where water is becoming increasingly precious," he says, "many of these innovations will not only revolutionise sanitation in the developing world, but also help transform our dependence on traditional flush toilets in wealthy nations".

And since the new architecture looks as if it had been designed by machines objects that look as if they had been designed by men are becoming increasingly precious to us.

Ofcom predicts that by 2030 the demand for mobile data could be as much as 80 times higher than it is today, and with this in mind the radio spectrum is becoming increasingly precious.