Sentence examples for off the continent from inspiring English sources

"Some people have written off the Continent completely," Mr. Rimer said.

It's the sort of homely, no-frills South American cuisine that's not easy to find off the continent.

He benefited, too, from a widespread neglect of Africa in the 1990s, when outside governments largely wrote off the continent as too poor and troubled to matter.

With the weather going down and a sinking feeling that we'd miss our flight off the continent, I stopped writing and hunkered down for a few days of tent-bound living.

We didn't shuffle off the continent until a hundred and twenty thousand years ago or less, but it turns out that earlier hominins, Homo erectus, had been spilling out of there for ages already, making stone tools and, eventually, fires.

During and after the Geeks Africa trip, McClure also noted 500 Startups' focus on ventures that can scale on and off the continent.

He had stayed a London ­resident, when he wasn't off on the  continent setting up big pictures.

But something has to give in the interchange fee battle before Apple Pay can truly take off on the continent.

Mobile money has taken off on the continent, with figures from the Central Bank of Kenya indicating Kenyans alone transferred over $11bn using mobile money services in the fast half of 2014.

When humans arrived in North America, some thirteen thousand years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, they killed off most of the continent's largest mammals, leaving key ecological roles unfilled.

The grandfather from the Isle of Man has steadily ticked off the continents' highest points since then.