Example sentences of "off in the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 2 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 4 | Another former Conservative Cabinet minister , David Howell , chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee , praised the Budget as a ‘ balanced and prudent ’ statement which would pay off in the long term . |
| 5 | The party leadership 's case — that the Scottish Secretary would be forced to select councillors to sit on the Committee of the Regions from a list supplied by the four parties , and this was a key concession which would pay off in the long term — was acknowledged by committee members . |