Sentence examples for precious advantage from inspiring English sources

Whatever the game now is, that is a precious advantage.

Giving birth here would deliver their children a precious advantage: it would make them Americans.

It seemed the troops would retain their most precious advantage: the element of surprise.

But perhaps the most precious advantage of all is the flexibility that comes with working for yourself.

It bought complicated financial hedges intended to mitigate the impact of high fuel prices, and gained a precious advantage over its competitors as oil prices soared.

But instead of protecting their precious advantage, they succumbed to a spasm of hatred and threw the vase, the crockery, the cutlery and the kitchen sink at an obscure politician from Alaska.

The high removal yields (76 % to 99%%) in short contact time of 30 min at the presence of low dose of adsorbent (0.05 to 0.1 g) are the precious advantages of modified silica aerogel.

Here is a quote from p.181 of the book "Unconventional Success" by David Swensen of Yale University, "Because Morningstar fails to realize that information on past performance provides precious little advantage in the hunt for superior future performance, the firm's regular attempts to tweak its ratings system hold no promise for success".

From that breakdown I'd say there are precious few advantages to the Mini other than its size.

In conclusion, IRC has several precious comparable advantages.

The organizers jiggered with the rules this year, costing Lance Armstrong and his team precious seconds of advantage yesterday.