Example sentences of "[coord] to be precise " in BNC.
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1 | This afternoon in the market she negotiated the amendment of ‘ Brokkoli ’ on a hand-written sign by agreeing to buy two pounds of the vegetable — or to be precise , flower used as a vegetable . |
2 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
3 | Paris — or to be precise , the Paris made up of Montparnasse , St Germain and the Mouffetard — was like a party : meeting someone on the street in that quadrant did not constitute a pickup . |
4 | Rather than missing lovers there were missing bodies , or to be precise one missing body — and a lot of missing loot . |
5 | I say four , but to be precise , channels two and three are in fact combined . |