prime importance

collocation in English

meanings of primeand importance

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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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Examples of prime importance

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A definition of needs has today become of primeimportance to the designer of technological environment.
He probably considered the third of these tasks to be of primeimportance, and to be the one best suited to him.
Nightmares may very well be one type of dream which reveals the primeimportance of threat simulation mechanisms.
The primeimportance of the distinction is to clarify our thinking about technology as a source of environmental damage.
In the case of the tax on trucks, this distinction turns out to be of primeimportance.
This change in attitude has resulted in an easily accessible display in which the story behind the objects is of primeimportance.
As for all alert systems, reactivity is of primeimportance.
Whether pitches are heard or not is of primeimportance in spectral discrimination.
Of the many factors affecting fertility rates, ovulation is of primeimportance.
As the target audience, for both the music itself and the magazines that support it, young women's needs and desires are of primeimportance.
This allows us to derive two conditions on the pollution function which are of primeimportance for the behaviour of pollution.
Contact-line dynamics, and the associated capillarity and contact-angle phenomena, are usually only of primeimportance when the capillary number is small.
Single-mode fiber, on the other hand, is aimed at long-haul networks where power efficiency is of primeimportance.
In order to answer these questions the period 1945 to 1951 seems to be of primeimportance.
Sustaining the quantity and quality of groundwater resources is of primeimportance for maintaining crop productivity and protecting the health of farmers and their families.
Although the report of the 1923-1926 survey attached primeimportance to family formation, the significance of employment should not be underestimated.
Of the many factors which affect fertility rates, ovulation is of primeimportance.
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 of primeimportance.
In the eastern districts, wheat allotment payments were not a significant proportion of farm income; in this region the value of the crop was of primeimportance.
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