Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 2 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 3 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 4 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 5 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 6 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |