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‘A commodity can be rare.’

[⟨det commodity.n⟩ rare.a]

Learned by Reading

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Long story short, originality and ingenuity is a rare commodity in this industry no matter what the source of the detriment.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In Victorian times, oranges were such a rare commodity that they were given as Christmas gifts.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A real handwritten letter is such a rare commodity these days and certainly as rare as to be practically extinct in the context of readers writing letters to N. M. E. as Morrissey famously did.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I even had a smile on my face, which in these days, seems like such a rare commodity, a luxury I can *n’t seem to afford.
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In Wikipedia:

The use of an MK3 Emergency transceiver on the TARDIS identifies a distress signal and brings the craft to the lush jungle world of Chloris, where metal in all forms is a rare and prized commodity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I don’t get to relax and have fun very often, so when that rare, precious commodity known as?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Intelligence is a rare commodity online, where writers have become utterly divorced from editors, and virtually all publishing is vanity publishing.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A lust – free male is a rare commodity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A fantastic choice if a parking space is both costly and a rare commodity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In this hard cold world of ecclesial politics, human kindness is a rare commodity and sentiments like Bishop Chane’s are precious gems.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Because Phelps is that rare commodity – a funny looking kid with a self-deprecating sense of humor, poise, and a complete and utter inability to take himself seriously.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

These days sleep is a rare commodity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

These may be cooked with ease at any place. it is essential to carry to packet of salt as this is a rare commodity at the higher altitude.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

While beautiful sunny days are something of a rare commodity on the West Coast of Ireland, beautiful countryside is not.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Being on the boat by himself meant he had the privacy to try things that he would have felt too shy to try at school, for in a dorm with four other boys privacy was a very rare commodity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Patience was quickly becoming a rare commodity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So, oxytocin, which is found in numerous species of mammals including lions and primates does not prevent them from attacking and killing other animals and even babies of the same species, animals in which long term sexual relationships are? a vanishingly rare commodity,? demonstrating there is? nothing natural about? marriage,? is in humans the hormone that? allows us to have morality? a love beyond the self? that far exceeds anything found in our mammal relatives.?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When scholarly information (books) were a rare commodity the primary role of the librarian was to be the custodian of the library’s collections -’ ’ the Keeper of the Books’ ’. This is still the title of the librarian at Middle Temple.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Are you really going to suggest that education is fostered by being secret and clandestine, treating the syllabus as some proprietary, rare commodity available only to a select group of students?
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Queried on 2013-05-20.