Sentence examples for spends precious from inspiring English sources

It doesn't matter that the novel barely asks us to believe any of this (it seems likely that the elderly novelist is losing his wits, and that this is his fond fantasy of paternal ownership); Gilbert spends precious pages on this narrative silliness, and the scene dribbles away.

One advantage of an informal factory is that it rarely spends precious foreign exchange to import equipment.

Or spending precious idling hours in golden dreams.

And actually, psychologists spend precious little time thinking about it.

Sleeping at Doug's Camp, the children spend precious time getting to know the orphans.

They spend precious little time dwelling on Disney's false promises about education.

Others complained that the city should not be spending precious dollars on paving projects.

Why spend precious tax dollars overseas when the need at home is so great?

Engaging them — and spending precious campaign dollars on them — was quite simply a waste of time.

How can we avoid spending precious time and money cataloging electronic ephemera?

Pencils begin scratching or remain aloft as their owners spend precious minutes pondering.