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Meanings of precious time in English

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Usage of precious time in English
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In the absence of a common language, translation soaks up precious time.
The Guardian
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The second hand on the ship's clock kept eating up precious time.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
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Strangely, the greatest benefit of this bottom-up process is saving precious time.
Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
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You must be raging with him for taking up your precious time.
The Irish Times
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I realize that I must be taking up precious time of yours.
Carrion comfort
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The sirocco gifted me with precious time, but every storm eventually quiets.
Daughters of the Nile
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To break it down completely would have taken too much precious time.
Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer
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I suppose you think such vanities as these waste of precious time.
Amos Huntingdon
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The path there, however, cost the hospital and caregivers precious time and resources.
Reuters
10
She'd been looking at their time left together as precious time.
Still alice
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Rae: I think it comes from being conscious of how precious time is.
Ebony
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Chadwick had lost precious time, but his stride carried him well.
Cold springs
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Thank you for sharing some of your limited and precious time.
I'm not hanging noodles on your ears and other intriguing idioms...
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And any glitch can cost precious time in a space race.
Wired
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But it also meant she had to share the precious time with Rashid.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
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Have we realised how precious time spent together as a family has become?
The South African
This collocation consists of:
Precious time through the time
Precious time across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common