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01. You need to be more [precise] in telling us what the problem is if you want us to help you.

02. The earthquake occurred at [precisely] 9:02 this morning.

03. She carved the turkey with the [precision] of a surgeon.

04. No one knows [precisely] how many immigrants to our country end up returning to their homeland.

05. The meeting began at [precisely] 3:00.

06. I can't remember [precisely] when I saw her, but it wasn't very long ago.

07. His measurements were somewhat [imprecise], so we had to do them over again.

08. Writer John Cheever once said, "I can't write without a reader. It's [precisely] like a kiss; you can't do it alone."

09. Tycho Brahe accumulated 20 years of [precise] measurements of the positions of the Earth, moon and sun.

10. Without using [precision] instruments, a Greek mathematician measured the radius of earth in the third century B.C., and came within 1 percent of the value determined by today's technology.

11. You need to be a little more [precise] in your measurements because the walls of your birdhouse don't fit together very well.

12. Captain Cook visited Tahiti four times between 1769 and 1777, and drew a [precise] map of the island.

13. A Japanese proverb observes that it is [precisely] the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.

14. Many living creatures are very [precisely] adapted to particular ways of life.

15. The price we quoted you is somewhat [imprecise] at the moment because you haven't given us all the information we need.