Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |
| 2 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 3 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 4 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 5 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 6 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 7 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 8 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 9 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 10 | Real Madrid showed too much passion and had two sent off in the last 16 minutes of their UEFA Cup tie at Sigma Olomouc of Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive . |
| 12 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 13 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 14 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 15 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 16 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 17 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |