Sentence examples for cost precious from inspiring English sources

Abu Ghraib and drone attacks cost precious few votes or senior careers.

His tenacity has been matched by a watchfulness, a wariness, born of knowing that careless words could cost precious votes.

Mr Quijano told The Economist that sounded like "extortion".Come what may, the dispute has already cost precious time.

Mr. Gore's lawyers swiftly objected that that would cost precious moments of oral argument, and the court denied her request.

The new version can take wide-angle selfies or standard rear-lens shots – wide-angle or close-up – without being moved; the 3D printer meant each redesign could be produced in hours, rather than having to go to a factory for prototyping, which would cost precious days.

There are more apps I'd probably visit if they were integrated with complementary apps, though I realize developers don't have full control here its hard to identify a few apps to integrate with, as those integrations cost precious development time.

To delay in answering these questions costs precious seconds and minutes in a person's treatment.

All suspected tissue has to be examined on Plum Island, a procedure that critics say costs precious time.

Fighting your way through them shatters the claymore you've been carrying, and costs precious arrows, but the chest at the end contains a hundred rupees, and you pick up a spear one of them dropped, so it nets out.

And for news-tracking professionals and resource-strapped small businesses, this information overload costs precious time and money.

This behaviour appears at first to be an evolutionary paradox, since helping others costs precious resources and decreases one's own fitness.