Example sentences of "off [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 2 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 3 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 4 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
| 6 | A 30 year old woman presented with asthma which she had on and off for 3 years . |
| 7 | We were lovers on and off for three years . |
| 8 | She lived here on and off for three years . |
| 9 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 10 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 11 | fred Lansdown clocks off after 43 years |
| 12 | I do n't see how he should have got off with 7 years . |
| 13 | Walkinshaw happened to mention that his motor group TWR Ltd were working on a deal with a retail garage business to form a company which would be floated off within five years . |
| 14 | Unsecured creditors should agree to accept a down payment of around 35p in the pound for money due to them , and to take the balance in redeemable convertible preference shares in Prior Harwin , to be paid off in four years ' time . |
| 15 | The report stated that while the number of new settlements had levelled off in recent years , the Jewish population in the occupied territories was growing by as much as 10 per cent annually . |
| 16 | Never never known ever to be laid off in five years . |
| 17 | we 've paid off in two years , Karen . |
| 18 | According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years . |
| 19 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |