Sentence examples for off the ration from inspiring English sources

The Minister of Food, Major Gwilym Lloyd-George hasaidid that these unpopular meats can be sold off the ration, but there are likely to be few takers even so.

Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).

For Trinder to own a place in your cultural headspace, you must have a taste for the archival or a birth certificate dated before chocolate came off the ration.

In 1947, Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten was a flourish of expense and glamour in a ruined London – the wedding breakfast had to be based on off-the-ration partridges from the royal estates.

In order to write your empirical formula for this compound, you need to round off the mole rations to the nearest whole number.

Most of the rations consist of corn.

Some food and other items have already been taken off the universal monthly ration card.

The house of "Big Brother" is unlike any ever designed; the main lights never turn off; the hot water is rationed; there are weekly activities including mask-making, domino mazes and jump-rope contests.

"If Hitler had invaded, up to eight men would have lived in bases similar to this and they would have survived off the land and their rations.

My first exposure to American culture came back in the Doris Days of the early 1960s, growing up in a Britain that was still shaking off the lingering effects of rationing and the costs of post-war reconstruction.

So instead of expediting their caravans, Mr. Kleinschmidt said he would cut off their ration cards.