1.   If we spend much time regretting, we lose precious time moving on.

2.   It is up to each group to divide that precious time between colleagues.

3.   She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave.

4.   She spent precious time looking for a telephone.

5.   This leaf fall would continue for three or four months every year and took much precious time from other projects.

6.   We cannot afford to waste precious time.

7.   I had precious little time for reading.

8.   We can save precious time by taking this shortcut.

9.   But it would be a waste of precious time.

10.   All this was precious time within which to advance the British nuclear programme.