"off-duty hours" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a period of time when someone is not expected to be at work. For example, "The employee is allowed to take two days off during the off-duty hours each month."
It's the off-duty hours she finds the worst, the endless time to kill.
He spent his off-duty hours on the Reagan doing P90X insanity workouts.
They would ride the subway in their off-duty hours, visiting their dates or heading to Times Square.
In his off-duty hours, he continued to paint and draw and new dealers began to take more interest in his work.
But, over-burdened and understaffed, the police are rarely available, Mr. Aggarwal said, even though he has offered to pay them extra to work on off-duty hours.
Instead, he took a menial job in a chemical laboratory, spending most of his off-duty hours at evening classes, where he studied science.
Women's right of access to vital contraceptive medications and devices were outweighed in the court's view by the religious freedom of extremists to avoid the absurdly tenuous link between their payment of some dollars to an insurance company that might pay other dollars to a pharmacy or doctor that then provides birth control pills or devices to their worker in her off duty hours.
We contend that many residents have recognized this conundrum and have taken steps to reduce their personal sleep deprivation by improving their likelihood of sleep during off duty hours through the use of pharmacological sleep aids.
The aim of this study was to determine the associations of depressive symptoms with taking days of off duty, hours of sleep, and the number of days of on-call and overnight work among physicians working in Japanese hospitals.
The aim of this study was to determine the associations of depressive symptoms with taking days of off duty, hours of sleep, and the number of days on-call and overnight work among physicians working in Japanese hospitals.
Recently the company has started producing work in Polish, to cater for a migrant readership which understandably feels the need to break from social realism in its off-duty reading hours.
