Примеры precious

• The continuous decline in precious-metal content was the safety valve that made possible the stability of prices expressed in trade coins.

• Precious metal coinages and the mass disbursements of imported wine, attested in a few regions archaeologically, fit comfortably into an analysis of this kind.

• Look at it this way: in some moods, or in some contexts, one might think that human beings are precious.

• One has taken care to use those that are most rare and most precious in those places closest to the king's person.

• One can learn much from one's own errors and precious little from one's triumphs.

• The technology itself was simple enough for a child to figure out, and inexpensive enough that adults were not precious about it.

• A procession of priests making an offering of blood or something precious.

• We rely on them to cultivate a very precious natural resource, brainpower, and they consume a significant part of total government expenditure.