Example sentences of "off [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 5 | ‘ Not if you 're going to back off like the last one did . ’ |
| 6 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 7 | set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs |
| 8 | Proceeding further southwards to Chester , and sales for Bookland were ‘ extremely good ’ at the beginning of November , tailing off until the last week before Christmas and Monday the 21st , ‘ the busiest day of the year for us ’ . |
| 9 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 12 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 13 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive . |
| 16 | ‘ Overwhelming negativity marked this year off from the last ’ , he observed , ‘ … the real revolution is poetry , the revolution is in your mind . ’ |
| 17 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 20 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |
| 24 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 25 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 26 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 27 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 28 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 29 | Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her . |
| 30 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |