Example sentences of "[adv] took off in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Engelman , who coped patiently with the percussion part here , had a marginally less exciting time in Bruce Mather 's Gatinara , where easy-going alternations of viola and marimba once took off in a bout of vigorous hocketing , but not for long . |
| 2 | The idea really took off in America where , by the 1890s , Brownells , a large tour operator , relied on local travel agents throughout the United States to sell their tours . |
| 3 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | and I think it was one of things which never really took off in terms of the accident |
| 5 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 6 | Flight-weight maybe , but they never really took off in British homes . |