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She said that the new baseline tests would take place at a time that was "particularly precious and valuable" for children and that they were "a waste of time".

At a time when there were no public art galleries, access to collections like Petworth was particularly precious for artists – but Ian Warrell, the Tate's Turner expert and co-curator of the exhibition, sees a yearning for a lost Arcadia in Turner's many intimate watercolour sketches of the house.

Defence spending is particularly precious to Conservative voters.

Databases from far-flung peoples are particularly precious.

Dreams are particularly precious for those with so little else.

Fatherhood is particularly precious to Mr. Jackson, since it is a gift he was nearly denied.

"Trees are particularly precious to people living in crowded city neighborhoods," Mr. Benepe said.

We are keeping items that are particularly precious to us, but we have made the decision to consign the remainder to Sotheby's".

All other cherished creatures aside, there is one rare beast that is particularly precious to the BBC, namely the now 90-year-old Attenborough.

Mozart's relatively rare works in minor keys are particularly precious: the A minor Rondo K511 and the B minor Adagio K540 are soliloquies of the most personal kind.

The information is particularly precious, since the exact size of neutron stars for a given mass is a major point of contention among theorists who try to understand how nuclear matter behaves under tremendous pressures, a relation described mathematically by the "equation of state".