The phrase "lost something important" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to having misplaced, or otherwise not having an important item, or forgotten an important event or detail. For example: "I misplaced my passport and lost something important in the process."
As Shin sees it, "people have lost something important they took for granted, and that loss leaves them devastated".
The word that stands out here is "price," as if by working toward a more inclusive and tolerant society we have lost something important.
"Somewhere along the way, in the race to get ahead, we lost something important," a sign on the wall of the American Greetings Austin headquarters read.
Tony Benn, doyen of old socialism, says as much when he contemptuously refers to the present party alignment as "a coalition".As a result, however, British politics has lost something important.
"A growing awareness that as we've become more urbanized and our lives have gotten busier and busier, we've lost something important and that something is a primal connection to nature.
We've lost something important to the soul of America and that is our connection to one another.
We feel the sickening horrors of wild hope, definitive absence and self-reproach that come with losing something important.
An example of this is when we lose something important to us – for example, a job or a relationship.
Sure, the government could save some cash by disbanding or downsizing the teams, but they'd lose something important.
"All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses … [have] proven to be true", he wrote: it was impossible for an "alternative" rock band to become as successful as Nirvana had without losing something important in the process.
Garfield has a very modern fear: "If Dawkins is right and map reading is one of the fundamental things that makes us human then if we don't use that plastic part of our brain – that spatial ability to read a map – we risk losing something important.
