Below you will find example sentences with "low priority". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Low Priority in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: priority
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "low priority" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a chronically low priority for the, a very low priority for governments, task, high and foreground stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with month low, week low, low pressure, top priority and high priority, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with low priority
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
And as such, the cases are often a low priority. (10 words)
The call gets a low priority, seemingly because there was no urgency to have police respond. (16 words)
As the Cold War got underway, the Air Force gave low priority to new ground-attack platforms. (17 words)
She was anxious to get it fixed before her maternity leave, expected to begin in December, kicked in. But she was told that, as she was still being paid, her file was a low priority, and that it wouldn’t even be considered before October. (45 words)
Things like floors and windows have been put to a low priority for now, so if its exceptionally messy out like it is now with rain and snow, our floors are just not going to look very good,” Blohm said. (40 words)
If an interrupt occurs that makes a high priority task ready during the insertion of a low priority task, that high priority task can be inserted and run immediately before the low priority task is inserted. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
If an interrupt occurs that makes a high priority task ready during the insertion of a low priority task, that high priority task can be inserted and run immediately before the low priority task is inserted.
In priority inversion a high priority task waits because a low priority task has a semaphore, but the lower priority task is not given CPU time to finish its work.
Background-foreground scheduling allowed low priority tasks CPU time when no foreground task needed to execute, and gave absolute priority within the foreground to threads/tasks with the highest priority.
Also, the tradition of low-turnout elections and the legislative balancing act required to enact spending preserved Byrd’s low priority for public education.
And as such, the cases are often a low priority.
Applications submitted after the deadline has passed will be considered as a low priority, and the child concerned will be allocated a school place after all other applications have been considered.
Potholes and uneven footpaths in residential streets may seem to some to be a low priority, but if you are cycling along those streets or walking or wheeling along those footpaths, they are very real problems.
As the Cold War got underway, the Air Force gave low priority to new ground-attack platforms.
Sassa did agree to prioritise some of CPS’s debts over others and low priority debts, up to R10 million, may be negotiated at a discounted rate.
Things like floors and windows have been put to a low priority for now, so if its exceptionally messy out like it is now with rain and snow, our floors are just not going to look very good,” Blohm said.
Allan Fels, former chairman of the National Mental Health Commission, said mental health units had been "a very low priority for governments, federal and state, for many years".
Brand said that because abalone has not been given the same protected status as rhino or cycads for example, it is a low priority for police.
If you leave low priority work to the last minute, you will typically find that last minute was all that was needed to complete the task.
Missing persons cases have been a chronically low priority for the police services tasked with such investigations, the civilian review of disappearances linked to Toronto serial killer has repeatedly heard in ongoing public consultations.
Because the Owens case is untypical, it may seem a low priority to look at divorce law in England and Wales as a whole.
Interestingly, politics is a low priority of interest for people in the GCC countries with around 30% of residents finding it interesting.
She was anxious to get it fixed before her maternity leave, expected to begin in December, kicked in. But she was told that, as she was still being paid, her file was a low priority, and that it wouldn’t even be considered before October.
The call gets a low priority, seemingly because there was no urgency to have police respond.
The Cloud Act is the last item included in the 2,000-page budget, and it will surely be a low priority in negotiations.
They have been rebuffed by Greater Dandenong Council, which has graded the project as a “low priority”.