Sentence examples for off for a long from inspiring English sources

I put it off for a long time.

"They blew her off for a long time," Crawford said.

Still, the scenery makes a hike well worthwhile, and I set off for a long walk in the afternoon.

"The weather will continue to change on and off for a long, long time," he said, before departing the prediction business at the top of his game.

Nominal GDP targeting would be one answer, because it would give the Fed a reason to hold off for a long time on rate hikes.

"I think that sort of stuck and it was very, very difficult for me to shake off for a long time," she sighs.

Mr. Gothner got tickets to a production of Noël Coward's "Private Lives" in London and they went off for a long weekend.

They propose to take off for a long-planned trip to Antwerp, of all places, one month   before the baby is due, thus signalling their essential indifference, and ineligibility for the traditional roles of doting grandparents.

By squeezing in the announcement just before Obama's helicopter took off for a long-scheduled trip to West Virginia, the vice-president effectively chose the last possible moment to announce his decision without it looking like it was in reaction to Clinton's performance.

They stopped off for quite a long time at Margaret's.

Given sufficient investment, innovation, and determination mother nature can be held off for quite a long time (ask the Dutch).