A few precious errors later, Sock was down by two sets to one.
The governing party, he argued, was therefore operating "with precious little margin for error".
It believes it should always win the sort of game it played Monday night, games with few points on the scoreboard and with precious little margin for error.
There was no swearing, no baiting of opposition players and precious little criticism over errors.
The next time there's a disease outbreak, we could potentially know the genome of the infectious organism, the susceptibility of the organism to various antibiotic therapies, and therefore determine the correct course of action without wasting precious resources in trial and error.
Linda Barnes might have won, but committed a tactical error that cost her precious seconds.
The promise for developers putting together IoT solutions is to be able to spend the bulk of their time and effort building features rather than spending their precious resources on building expensive and error-prone IoT infrastructure.
However, all too often they are fooled by randomness and burn precious cash before they can realize their error and pivot, if they ever realize it at all.
Pilots would no longer have to second-guess blindly on causes and corrective measures, and precious time could be saved and tragic errors avoided.
She would not waste precious time with ineffective drugs or trial-and-error treatment.
