take special pains
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Census officials have promised to take special pains to get a more accurate count during the 1980 census, in effect acknowledging that their methods have been inadequate.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year the bureau will take special pains to get the count as accurate as possible.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots.
From Time Magazine Archive
At times it will happen that two queens will come to life together, though this occurrence is rare, as the bees take special pains to prevent it.
From The Children's Life of the Bee by Maeterlinck, Maurice
