"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
  • Critics, however, say that charter schools take precious public dollars without serving large numbers of students.
  • That's why our goal must be to spend these precious dollars with unprecedented accountability, responsibility, and transparency.
  • But over his heart there seemed to be a warm spot, where those young hands had placed that precious dollar.
  • New York City and state continue to pour precious public dollars into the operation of prisons.
  • But we cannot afford to siphon precious dollars away from early education.
  • But the real question is if this is the best expenditure of the city's precious dollars.
  • "We will not waste valuable time and spend precious dollars reinventing what already exists."
  • The difference perhaps is the extent to which technology has aided the ability of immigrants today to divert precious dollars to various causes back home.
  • With the chance to make these precious dollars, her whole attitude changed.
  • And Nat fell to wondering how much happiness could be got out of his precious three dollars.
(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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