For example, most EU governments would think twice about imposing regulations on the City of London over ferocious British opposition, knowing that it might be their turn to defend precious national interests next time.
So far, he has shown precious little interest in doing so.
But the question comes back to why the River Corp would choose a practice with no significant landscape experience and precious little interest in the river.
The march for jobs and freedom in Washington, which had aroused precious little interest just months before, now became the order of the day.
He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
But here comes a confession: to the disappointment of my parents, I take precious little interest in cricket, apart from on those rare occasions when I remember to spite Norman Tebbit (come on India! Stick it to Dickie Mountbatten! Etc).
We'd be hazarding our precious low interest rates on a change of course that would put those rates up in the full knowledge that any extra billion pounds of public spending would be wiped out by billions of pounds more in higher interest costs for families, businesses, and taxpayers.
Though Google initially pitched the Daydream View as a reference design that other hardware manufacturers could/would imitate, there appears to have been precious little interest from OEMs in actually building and selling their own headsets.
It's government's responsibility, using its licensing and restrictive authorities, to protect our ever-diverse and complicated populace, and to maintain a balance among our precious and conflicting interests in order that we can share the planet and its bounty as peaceably as possible.
Just one week to go, but I noticed precious little election interest this morning at the "Foire d'Asperge" (Asparagus Fair) being held in one of our neighbouring villages.
