prime importance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimeandimportance
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prime
adjective[before noun]
uk/praɪm/us/praɪm/
main or ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofprimeandimportancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprime importance
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A definition of needs has today become ofprimeimportanceto the designer of technological environment.
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He probably considered the third of these tasks to be ofprimeimportance, and to be the one best suited to him.
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Nightmares may very well be one type of dream which reveals theprimeimportanceof threat simulation mechanisms.
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Theprimeimportanceof the distinction is to clarify our thinking about technology as a source of environmental damage.
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In the case of the tax on trucks, this distinction turns out to be ofprimeimportance.
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This change in attitude has resulted in an easily accessible display in which the story behind the objects is ofprimeimportance.
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As for all alert systems, reactivity is ofprimeimportance.
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Whether pitches are heard or not is ofprimeimportancein spectral discrimination.
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Of the many factors affecting fertility rates, ovulation is ofprimeimportance.
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As the target audience, for both the music itself and the magazines that support it, young women's needs and desires are ofprimeimportance.
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This allows us to derive two conditions on the pollution function which are ofprimeimportancefor the behaviour of pollution.
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Contact-line dynamics, and the associated capillarity and contact-angle phenomena, are usually only ofprimeimportancewhen the capillary number is small.
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Single-mode fiber, on the other hand, is aimed at long-haul networks where power efficiency is ofprimeimportance.
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In order to answer these questions the period 1945 to 1951 seems to be ofprimeimportance.
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Sustaining the quantity and quality of groundwater resources is ofprimeimportancefor maintaining crop productivity and protecting the health of farmers and their families.
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Although the report of the 1923-1926 survey attachedprimeimportanceto family formation, the significance of employment should not be underestimated.
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Of the many factors which affect fertility rates, ovulation is ofprimeimportance.
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While, to laymen, these differences might appear to be hair-splitting, to statisticians they marked crucial differences between fertility, natality and infant mortality rates and were therefore ofprimeimportance.
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In the eastern districts, wheat allotment payments were not a significant proportion of farm income; in this region the value of the crop was ofprimeimportance.
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