Sentence examples for get far off from inspiring English sources

Other witnesses said the copter did not get far off the ground.

With a seemingly bored bassist and drummer, the music couldn't get far off the ground.

If there was kite-flying going on, the idea hasn't been given much chance to get far off the ground.

But even if Iridium had succeeded, the micro-satellite business would probably still have failed to get far off the ground.

A throwback to an American experiment with the metric system in the early 1980s that did not get far off the ground, the signs not only indicate the number of kilometers to the next exit, but also the exit numbers themselves coincide with the number of kilometers from Nogales, which abuts the border.

In the end, the rocket failed literally and metaphorically to get far off the ground.

Harper said he values working with people who have gotten far off the diet and fitness track more than the celebrity status conferred upon him by reality TV.

Can I risk making them mad?"  Future Saddam Husseins may never get far enough to touch off a war.

Nobody could quibble with the vitality of the result, but there's the rub — his creators are so pleased with their baby that they can't help showing him off, and we get far more of his hisses and writhings than we need.

Having failed to get far more accessible scripts off the ground, Benson got these two movies made "by the skin of my teeth," largely because unnamed private investors were taken with the double-barrel conceit.

There is also a performance mode, but my favorite, valet mode, is known inside the company as Ferris Bueller Mode, which means a would-be joyrider won't get far before the vehicle shuts off.