"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The dispute shows how hard it is to come up with a system for doling out precious but scarce spots in elite universities without angering someone.
- But just as Manhattan motorists who find themselves racing to the same precious spot engage in a little verbal road rage, so too have arguments boiled over Diwali.
- In these precious sunny spots new plants sprout up, new creatures take hold and patch by patch the forest is reborn in a rapid dynamic of change.
- As long as there are some precious bright spots along the way, patience will likely exist, even in tough taskmasters like Baylor.
- The home run spate has been one of the precious few bright spots this season for the fourth-place Mets.
- Hordes of paparazzi, professional and amateur, rise at dawn to stake out precious spots.
- There are players, like Gondrezick and Ken Bannister, who lost precious spots on N.B.A. benches.
- Along with 40-odd classmates, he won a precious spot on the law review at the end of his first year through grades and a writing competition.
- One boy screamed and struggled to move his stiff limbs - he would earn a precious spot in the ambulance because Dr. Caunes suspected tetanus.
- "Here is a precious spot," Mr. Mena recalls telling his wife as he pulled over to take a closer look at one of the dilapidated bungalows.
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