There is no statutory law to clarify this mystery, and precious few precedents to work from.
MPs and precious few councillors north of the border, their spokesmen go mostly unquoted by the Scottish media.
Reports of overcrowding on the London Underground were precious few and big crowds arrived and departed from Olympic Park with little drama.
All the allies want to avoid civilian casualties, if they possibly can, but few Europeans have the most capable aircraft and only Britain has high-tech, accurate cruise missiles (and precious few of them).
Layoffs and company reorganizations have left many women picking up the slack--on the job and at home--which is adding to their professional workloads and leaving precious few minutes left in the day for household chores that continue to pile up.
Today it has none, and there are precious few in the entire north-east.
Anyone familiar with economic theory, and there are precious few in Congress or the Administration that fit this description, will tell you that what gets recorded as official debt and what does not is a linguistic, not an economics choice.
And they can at least be reassured that there are precious few Kobe Bryants out there, with the skill and physique to tackle the pro game as a teenager.
This was supposed to be the Obama administration's proudest accomplishment, and yet you will hear precious few Democrats boasting about the bill on the campaign trail.
Both sides set up with three across midfield operating behind three more attack-orientated players but Chelsea were the superior team and enjoyed the better of precious few early openings.
How feasible is it to implement ongoing interventions with precious few extra people, resources, and time in each school?
There were precious few hot items to be tempted by and even consumer electronics failed to be a big draw.
The downtown area today has precious few places to park a car (and the civic architecture is most charitably described as mediocre).
Planes will taxi away from main airport facilities before loading precious cargo, such as art and jewels, which will take only a few minutes, according to the airport.
Comtes Lafon even produces a few precious cases of Montrachet Grand Cru, one of the most famous and expensive white wines in the world.
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DuVernay said films such as "Precious" and directors such as Bigelow are anomalies and that the nominations over the past few years have not been incredibly diverse.
While Vettel was accentuating the positive, the race performance was a disappointing one, and the rapid tire degradation is a headache for a team which had precious few reliability issues over recent years.
In the last few days, he has bought into the Rydex Precious Metals Fund (RYPMX) and went long on ASA Ltd. (nyse: ASA - news - people ).
Europe was less a region on the map than a state of mind, and bundling as many countries as possible into a single week appealed to workers with precious few opportunities to travel.
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