"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

precious adjetivo

precious + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 130
precious metal • precious stone • precious thing • precious time • precious resource • precious moment • precious second • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(5) resource, asset
Kolokacji: 2
(8) cargo, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(11) water, fluid, liquid, food
Kolokacji: 4
(12) memory, knowledge
Kolokacji: 2
(15) item, icon, one
Kolokacji: 3
(17) day, opportunity, Bunny
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Love, darling
Kolokacji: 2
(21) Lord, son, word
Kolokacji: 3
(22) egg, seed, fruit, grain
Kolokacji: 4
(23) drop, pearl
Kolokacji: 2
(24) air, fuel, oxygen, oil
Kolokacji: 4
(25) coin, currency, dollar
Kolokacji: 3
1. precious coin = cenna moneta precious coin
2. precious dollar = cenny dolar precious dollar
  • New York City cannot afford such a judgment - either in money or in a more precious currency.
  • He deals in a currency more precious than money.
  • It is estimated to have replenished the Iraqi treasury with between $300 million and $2 billion in precious hard currency.
  • However, Stalin secured the precious foreign currency to pay for German armaments.
  • We risk paying a higher price in the most precious currency of all - human life - if we give Saddam more time to prepare for war.
  • Even so, his response had been woefully sloppy in an arena where milliseconds was the most precious currency.
  • Your love is a precious currency.
  • Access to ministers is the most precious currency in Whitehall, and there have been many attempts to see that it is not debauched.
  • Leib-ner's capacious client roster gives him an estimable power base; he's particularly rich in the precious currency of information.
  • True enough: and last week it seemed that the Conservative Party's stocks of this precious currency were running perilously low.
(26) herb, spice
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + precious
Kolokacji: 4
most precious • infinitely precious • overly precious • equally precious
precious + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
precious to • precious in • precious of • precious for

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