1.   Paradoxically, Soviet planners turned the primitive conditions and shortage of supplies at the factories to their advantage, Overy says.

2.   The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery, or under primitive conditions.

3.   Each country presents its challenges, some physically demanding, others morale sapping, there is disease, there are primitive conditions in which to live and work.

4.   We are working at Nanking University, in rather cramped and primitive conditions, for the buildings have seen better days.

5.   Brought together by sophisticated technology, they will work together in primitive conditions.

6.   Deployment of the Apaches has been delayed by the primitive conditions of the Albanian airstrips.

7.   I may never try back-country touring excursions, going from hut to hut and staying overnight in primitive conditions.

8.   Millions of Cambodians, especially city-dwellers, were driven from their homes and forced to work in the fields under primitive conditions.

9.   Physicians still worked under some primitive conditions.