Below you will find example sentences with "priority task". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Priority Task in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 6
  • Discovered as a combination around: task
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.8 words

Words in this phrase

priority task

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • priority can mean: An item's relative importance. Frequent word
  • task can mean: A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 0 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a high priority task in its 1× a high priority task ready during 1× a high priority task waits because 1× a low priority task has a 1× a low priority task that high 1× that high priority task can be 1× the higher priority task on defined 1× the highest priority task to running 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

deadlock is prevented 1× if an interrupt 1× in priority inversion 1× priority inversion can 1× the belgian s 1× the critical response 1×

Common sentence endings:

finish its work 1× incoming message queue 1× on defined conditions 1× task is inserted 1× task to running 1× task upon appointment 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

high 4× low 4× message 4× ready 2× inserted 2× inversion 2× semaphore 2× higher 2× queue 2× interrupt 1× occurs 1× makes 1×

Related phrases

task force top priority coronavirus task high priority low priority

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

prior year print media print edition principal secretary principal ideal princess margaret

Just after it in the phrase index:

prison guards prison sentence prison system privacy commissioner privacy law privacy laws

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

coronavirus task

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "priority task" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 31.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a high priority task in its, a high priority task ready during, high, low and message stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with task force, top priority and coronavirus task, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with priority task

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Deadlock is prevented by careful design or by having floored semaphores, which pass control of a semaphore to the higher priority task on defined conditions. (25 words)

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. (30 words)

The critical response time, sometimes called the flyback time, is the time it takes to queue a new ready task and restore the state of the highest priority task to running. (31 words)

Longer example sentences

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)

Priority inversion can occur when a task is working on a low-priority message and ignores a higher-priority message (or a message originating indirectly from a high priority task) in its incoming message queue. (35 words)

The Belgian’s continued stay as Chipolopolo coach has been a matter of heated debate after he failed to qualify Zambia to next year’s Africa Cup, which was the priority task upon appointment. (34 words)

Example sentences (6)

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.

Priority inversion can occur when a task is working on a low-priority message and ignores a higher-priority message (or a message originating indirectly from a high priority task) in its incoming message queue.

The critical response time, sometimes called the flyback time, is the time it takes to queue a new ready task and restore the state of the highest priority task to running.

The Belgian’s continued stay as Chipolopolo coach has been a matter of heated debate after he failed to qualify Zambia to next year’s Africa Cup, which was the priority task upon appointment.

Deadlock is prevented by careful design or by having floored semaphores, which pass control of a semaphore to the higher priority task on defined conditions.