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• There are many projects the kids can do — 300, to be precise.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• There are a lot of different types of dates—around 400 to be precise.
  — Sina Petri, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2024
• Our tester found both inside and outside measurements to be precise, and the tape is very easy to read.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
• Ethan also encounters a figure from his past—six movies in the past, to be precise.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 July 2023
• The eggs add richness while helping the custard thicken, and the measurements need to be precise.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2023
• But the Moms House is just a house; a two-story, four-bedroom duplex in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood to be precise.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• Just keep in mind that these measurements need to be precise, else the cover may not fit properly.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• The trail section — 2.14 miles long, to be precise — formally opens with a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2024
• When parents got their school cafeteria’s menu for February, something was missing: A third of the menu to be precise.
  — Rachel Sabella, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2024
• The coronation procession in Scotland began with a pony — a Shetland pony to be precise, named Cpl.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• Six pages of ideas, to be precise, leaning heavily on transportation projects and one-time funding that looked promising just eight months ago.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• This news has been hotly anticipated and long-awaited: two years, to be precise.
  — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 23 May 2024
• The brand takes great care in ensuring that each packet contains only trace amounts of carbohydrates per serving—less than one gram, to be precise.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• In fact, a recent study by Nuffield Health found that the average adult is getting under six hours (5.91, to be precise) per night on average—a figure that's worsening each year.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2024
• This is just the latest ankle injury — right ankle soreness, to be precise — to impact Ball in his special but injury riddled four-year career.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
• As a result, the mice lived slightly longer, 4.4 percent more to be precise, shining a light on how helpful these specific genes might be in determining aging.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• Meanwhile, French Polynesia (Tahiti to be precise), is where the surfing competitions will take place.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2024
• The challenge of the show’s second season, then, was to figure out a way to dive deeper, to be precise more often than not, and to do so without sacrificing anything that made the first season such a tremendous success.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
• Substitute Mikel Oyarzabal’s 86th-minute winner unfolded even faster — over six passes and 13 seconds, to be precise.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• One summer evening, in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau threw a party—a melon party, to be precise, a long-standing tradition of his earthy, garden-loving family.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• The blend also contains probiotics (7.2 billion CFUs in a single scoop, to be precise) and a smorgasbord of vitamins, adaptogens, digestive enzymes and magnesium to keep you well and energised.
  — Tracy Achonwa, Vogue, 13 June 2024
• Despite the decades of bad press and costly litigation that ensued, pyramid schemes—or, to be precise, the ostensibly law-abiding companies that happen to be dead ringers for pyramid schemes—appear to be an immovable pillar of the American economy.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024