Sentence examples for was spent off from inspiring English sources

Most of the voyage was spent off the coast of Mexico in the Sea of Cortez, the body of water between the Baja Peninsula and Pacific Mexico famed for its marine biodiversity.

At least half his time, though, was spent off campus at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, a non-racial, non-credit art school that Bill Ainslie had started in 1972.

Expatriate Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who bought heavily indebted Chelsea two years ago and who has spent lavishly on building a world-class team, is spending off the pitch too (See "Russian Roulette").

At a time when many of the league's neophyte players are spending off-days in their hotel rooms -- locked in Sony PlayStation wars -- the Jazz is truly from another era.

Each family must also sign a contract certifying full-time residency; no more than one month a year can be spent off the island.

However, the associated uniparental incubation entails a higher energetic challenge due to constraints in time that can be spent off the nests [5] and/or may have consequences for the development and condition of the offspring due to the intermittent nature of incubation [11].

This indicates an opposite bias of more time being spent off the computer than suggested by the proportion of time standing/walking.

Some $24 million of that was spent on television and other "off-line" advertising.

Most of it was spent on Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town.

Much of the following year was spent on prison ships off the American coast.

It was Lisa Sapolsky's second night in Africa, and it was spent warding off an infestation of red ants with pincers.