51.   Li ran the city bureau overseeing sales of tobacco to cigarette factories, a precious commodity in hard-smoking China and a key source of government tax revenues.

52.   The scarcity of water, recorded throughout most parts of the city, had made water a precious commodity, he said.

53.   This writer wonders if this is of any help to the many who have been without the precious commodity for days on end.

54.   Two nights of rain have made dry wood a precious commodity, only used for cooking.

55.   Warning of surprise attack was a precious commodity, and subs were a critical part of that effort.

56.   A downpour of rains, welcome but late, disrupted harvesting in December and January, pushing back the delivery date for the precious commodity.

57.   The price of the precious commodity has doubled or tripled since the power cut began in this capital of the former Spanish colony in the Gulf of Guinea.

58.   Water is an especially precious commodity after four years of drought.