Sentence examples for precious overtime from inspiring English sources

And yet, ask any GP or even the hospital doctors who spend precious overtime typing them, the typical discharge summary is unduly verbose, maddeningly unenlightening and notoriously unreliable.

For these people time will have simply become too precious to squander on placating whining children, or on doing overtime for pushy clients, sitting though badly-written sitcoms or just dawdling in the pub after work.

Precious, precious few.

Yes, overtime.

"Not precious.

Precious few.

Precious little.

Just precious.

Not only has he done precious little of that, but his answer to the euro crisis has been to lurch in the opposite direction: new levies on the rich, scrapping ceilings on personal taxes, abolishing employers' tax breaks for overtime.

We paid overtime.

Then came overtime.