Example sentences of "a [adj] off [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Give yourself a dry off with this .
2 Erm , you know , maybe it 's something we can do in just a one off during the winter
3 There had been weakened competitiveness , endemic balance-of-payments problems , cyclical stop — go movements in the economy , and a falling off of the rate of capital accumulation .
4 Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill .
5 From the primitive algae of the Archaeozoic era , which ultimately would continue as mosses and fungi right up to the present day , there was a branching off of the lycopodiates , early ferns , cycladals and filicales .
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