Sentence examples for one-off error from inspiring English sources

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That's no one-off error when official figures show more than 1,700 disabled people died last year within weeks of being found "fit for work".

The leader of Kingston council, Derek Osbourne, told local media that he regarded the case as "a one-off error of judgement" by Chew and that "we have no concerns about her".

For what is considered a one-off error – and cases of mistaken identity remain rare – the favoured tactic is for the official to "get back on the horse" at the first opportunity.

Even if these hawks are eventually proved right, it will be hard to shrug off Mr Bush's remark as just a one-off error, or a slip-up by the CIA, as Mr Tenet has loyally been saying.

(Not till thirty years later, in the mid-1990s, would he eventually get around to saying something more critical about Stalin than that he had been a "hard driver". And when he did apologize for his slavish, decades-long fealty to the Soviet line, he treated it as if it had been a one-off error in judgment, like John Edwards's vote for the Iraq war).

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Our quality controls include the exclusion of singleton alleles as possible sequencing or other one-off errors, a reassessment of the protein-coding status of the annotated genes undergoing a C-terminal extension, and the exclusion of one gene fusion event as a likely assembly error.

Even if the accident turns out to have been caused by some one-off, tragic error by the maintenance crew working on the engine just before take-off, that might not remove the stain on the aircraft's reputation.

We can confirm that this was a one-off, genuine error.

"In the vast majority of cases one-off clinical errors do not merit action by the GMC.

But while profitable and growing, my impression was that most of them are one-off rounding errors compared to Groupon's swelling revenue estimates – numbers that seem to go up in the press by $100 million every time they don't have any real news on this story.

On the one hand this single episode involving a firm with (at this point) just four buses could be dismissed as a one-off, a misguided error on their part, or just small fry.

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