Sentence examples for take off about from inspiring English sources

"A good refinisher will take off about one thirty-second of an inch".

Share prices usually take off about six months before the economic trough, when monetary policy has become laxer.

Mr. Kennedy said his group had watched the same plane take off about 20 minutes earlier, and recalled that it was a small blue-and-white Cessna.

Mr. Gondry didn't speak English while growing up in a middle-class family in Versailles, he said, but learned it when his career began to take off about six years ago.

Jack Straw, a former Labour foreign secretary, said: "When things are relatively calm, suspicions, fantasies and sometimes paranoia can take off about the so-called secret state but the moment there is a serious threat of an outrage the very same people and newspapers turn on a sixpence and they demand [to know why] there has been a failure by the intelligence agencies".

American narrowbodies take off about 1,750 times a day, so two minutes per flight is a lot of time.

Flight 431 took off about noon.

The six-seat aircraft had taken off about 2 p.m. from the resort island of Culebra.

The flight took off about 6 30 p.m. with all passengers on board.

The twin-engine Morane Sauliner 760 took off about 1 p.m., but the pilot sent a distress signal moments later and tried to return to the airport.

Its wider use took off about 10 years ago.