Sentence examples for were badly off from inspiring English sources

They were into cannabis, ketamine and heroin (although Day did not always join them; drugs clouded the camera vision she valued – she was "a photography junkie" ); they were badly off in that recessionary era.

For example, in a recent project involving estimating the audience on TV stations at different times of day, we found that a system's predictions were badly off at certain times in some regions of the country.

Though Bob had been a noted illustrator he left very little money, and the children were badly off.

We are definitely not where we should have been.' If McLaren thought they were badly off then Jordan-Honda felt much worse.

In other words, we were badly off-course well before this latest crisis.

Helena writes: After yet another round of marathon talks, the Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras emerged well after midnight Tuesday to douse speculation (fueled earlier in the day by labour ministry officials) that negotiations with envoys representing the country's "troika" of creditors were badly off-track.

The Chinese refugees are badly off, and more are leaving Hong Kong now than coming into it.

"For example, villages like Oriechoi, in Merok parish and Olwelai, in Olwelai parish, are badly off.

He also led the league in ground ball-to-fly ball ratio, and if hitters are putting the ball in the air, it is a sign Hampton's location is badly off.

She deals with the objection that specifying when someone is badly off is very difficult.

"We're badly off, but we have neighbours who are worse off.