Sentence examples for precious- from inspiring English sources

You have a precious opportunity, and an important responsibility, in explaining and demonstrating how faith in Islam can be part of British identity.

Yet, although even the IMF is crying out for the classic Keynesian boost to infrastructure spending, there is precious little sign of a favourable response from policymakers, especially in the beleaguered eurozone.

Musicians need to survive, and there's precious little money around.

But at the same time, those recent warnings from the internet pioneer Vint Cerf about storage technologies becoming obsolete and the advent of a "digital dark age" highlight a profound fear: precious things are now only a corrupted hard drive or system upgrade away from being lost, for good.

Their vote is far too precious to bestow on any of the parties on offer.

After recent rises, gold and silver prices slipped back, leaving Randgold Resources 204p lower at £46.27 and Mexican precious metals miner Fresnillo down 33p at 852p.

It's not a great leap to deduce therefore that you've almost certainly been brain-zapped hundreds of times and that precious memory of going on holiday last year is entirely fictitious.

And the more horrific the circumstances, the more needful, the more precious, the more costly is the truth".

Don't be precious about it – going one size bigger than usual might help avoid bulging.

With smoke still rising from the ruins of Krásna Hôrka on Monday, police announced that the most precious collections and documents had been rescued from the flames.

Parker has given my life a precious new layer; a glowing aggregate of thousands of small moments of joy.