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Discover LudwigThe phrase "had been off" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to something that was previously off and has now been turned on. For example: The power had been off in my house for weeks, but it finally came back on today.
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The Nets had been off since Tuesday.
I said The Times had been off base.
The pacing had been off, the soundtrack all wrong.
The company's shares had been off as much as 10 percent earlier in the day.
He said business had been "off" a bit but largely unharmed by the economic downturn.
Early in the day, both indexes had been off as much as 0.4percentt.
The Aggies (14-2, 2-1) had been off to the best start in team history.
The shares had been off as much as 52percentt earlier in the day before Lloyds made its interest known.
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We talked for hours about sex, relationships, bars, fake IDs, homophobia, everything that had been off-limits before".
Basketball had been off-campus for several seasons when the team moved downtown.
Southerners flocked to the north mainly to visit the Jaffna Peninsula that had been off-limits for decades.
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