Sentence examples for would have precious from inspiring English sources

Of course, if Mr. Cheney had his way, historians would have precious little source material with which to work.

The company, after the merger, would have precious metals reserves of 350 million ounces of proven and probable silver, and 3 million ounces of gold reserves, according to a company statement.

Marc Jacobs gets away with odd shapes and kooky combinations because le tout New York knows that without him, the city would have precious little in the way of new ideas to call its own.

This is a minor point, but if I shot a quail with a load of buckshot, intended to take down full-grown deer -- hence the name -- then I would have precious little of that "full of flavor" little bird to set on my dinner table.

If Land got back what he's been handing out for decades he would have precious few freedoms left.

Thrifty colonial women would have recycled precious fabric scraps to make and repair garments and bedding.

Even if doctors had recognised it then, there would have been precious little they could have done about it at the time.

Since one of Poe's hobby horses was accusing other writers of plagiarism, he would probably not have been happy with this situation though, as in life, there would have been precious little he could do about it.

"This £4,000 'loan' I have effectively given the government would have been precious, particularly since I've just bought a house with my partner – it could have been put down as part of the deposit," she says.

She won't be shut up or brushed away because she's too full of life — or dear life, as the book's title would have it: precious but also costly and so unpredictable it's all one can do to hang on.

I just kept thinking if there had been a way for the Indian NGO to be able to use the Cambodian NGO's research and to have discussed their experiences, they would have saved precious time, money and resources.