1 He was a precociously bright school boy.

2 Leonard, too, was coming of age - precociously so.

3 Precociously gifted, Schjerfbeck was 11 when she entered the Finnish Art Society's drawing school.

4 Her child behaves precociously.

5 The ones who grew up in New York seemed to take it all in stride and precociously had a sense of their breaking point and breezily steered well clear of it.

6 In 1970, his father rented a computer and he precociously rewrote its software.

7 It'seems generally true , too, that the aptitude for abstract thinking is developing precociously.