Sentence examples for being spent off from inspiring English sources

This indicates an opposite bias of more time being spent off the computer than suggested by the proportion of time standing/walking.

While 10 writer-artists in the story department were spending, off and on, about four years putting all this together, it sometimes looked as though their real world was falling apart.

Expatriate Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who bought heavily indebted Chelsea two years ago and who has spent lavishly on building a world-class team, is spending off the pitch too (See "Russian Roulette").

At a time when many of the league's neophyte players are spending off-days in their hotel rooms -- locked in Sony PlayStation wars -- the Jazz is truly from another era.

Most of the voyage was spent off the coast of Mexico in the Sea of Cortez, the body of water between the Baja Peninsula and Pacific Mexico famed for its marine biodiversity.

At least half his time, though, was spent off campus at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, a non-racial, non-credit art school that Bill Ainslie had started in 1972.

Each family must also sign a contract certifying full-time residency; no more than one month a year can be spent off the island.

It meant a large part of his summer was spent off his feet.

However, the associated uniparental incubation entails a higher energetic challenge due to constraints in time that can be spent off the nests [5] and/or may have consequences for the development and condition of the offspring due to the intermittent nature of incubation [11].

Obviously, the money currently being spent on weapons would be much better off spent on fostering brotherhood and love.

Am I going to get dismissed?'" The past few years have been spent on and off anti-depressants.