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July 31, 2008

Sought-after

sought-after (adjective) - in great demand because it is of very high quality or rare

much sought-after

sought-after jobs
sought-after positions
the most eagerly sought-after positions in Europe

the most chic and sought-after of her generation
she'd been the most sought-after debutante of her year
the most sought-after male lead role in recent years
the most sought-after guests

a much sought-after metal

a job with the KGB is much sought-after by young Russians

the most expensive and sought-after perfume in all of the ancient world

Dining out in attractive surroundings at a reasonable price has always been a sought-after concept

from being a much sought-after residential area, it has lost its fashionable air

much sought after by collectors
has become a sought-after collector's item

sought-after rewards
in a system where promotion (not money) is the most sought-after reward

employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain
sought-after qualifications in job candidates
one of our most sought-after magazine illustrators

sought-after simplicity
the sought-after simplicity is achieved

he's probably about to become one of the most sought-after artists of his generation as his fame spreads


Example sentences:

* Dining out in attractive surroundings at a reasonable price has always been a sought-after concept.

* From being a much sought-after residential area, it has lost its fashionable air.

* In a system where promotion (not money) is the most sought-after reward, the filtering of communication upwards through the hierarchy is inevitable.

* By these modifications the sought-after simplicity is achieved, coupled with the virtual elimination of all high-level signals.

* But even Ogonyok, considered the most chic and sought-after of the progressive press, is running at only 50 per cent of 1989 levels.

* The next most sought-after type of information is economic, but the resources put into this are comparatively small, even in those four companies issuing economic guidelines.

* It was the most expensive and sought-after perfume in all of the ancient world.

* MPs, retiring, elected or re-elected, will be the most sought-after guests.

* She'd been the most sought-after debutante of her year and, according to the occasional letter Alice had had from Lady Debrace, was forever receiving proposals from faithful admirers who danced constant attendance upon her.

* A job with the KGB is much sought-after by young Russians because it pays well, offers many special privileges such as housing and foreign goods denied to the ordinary citizen, and also gives the chance of foreign travel.

* Although she had never had any secretarial training, she had the nerve to apply for one of the most eagerly sought-after positions in Europe.

* Pliny describes a much sought-after metal called Corinthian bronze, an alloy of copper with gold and silver, which took on a purplish hue.

* In what could be the most crucial casting decision of his career, Stone settled on Val Kilmer to take on the most sought-after male lead role in recent years.

* More generally, he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market, which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James's second wife, rather than Henry VIII's fourth.

* While that might also be true in Britain for people with such sought-after qualifications as physics, Kurt pointed out that that was the norm in East Germany.

* Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain, but the blockbuster moves --; 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91, and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently --; are probably over for the immediate future.


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