Quotes about one-off (16 Quotes)


    It's up to the counties when they'll play, but it is disappointing that in a one-off game against Australia, they can't come up. I think they would have enjoyed it, but we'll have to get on with it.

    Wayne is a fantastic player. He is a midfielder's dream. You lose count of the amount of times I look up and he is in the 'hole' and you can give him any sort of ball and he will bring it down and turn and make things happen. You can't buy that sort of quality. He is a one-off in that way. He is one of the best in the world at doing that. I am sure opponents are wary of what he can do and when you are facing a player of that ability and that instinct, you don't want to dive in on him. It's a good thing if teams are scared of him.


    I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

    The big concern of the IT industry is that the attackers have not been apprehended. We must know who is doing it and find out if it is a part of a series or, just a one-off incident. Clearly someone has done some planning and may do it again.



    We've got to look at this result as a one-off, ... Maybe other people don't see it like that. They'll say we're back to square one, but it's about what we believe we can achieve. We've got to start off the European Championship qualifiers with confidence and good results behind us - the way we sort of finished this group.


    It's good to see CLP making a one-off gain last year and investors are happy to see that its earnings from overseas operations are increasing. However, it faces problems ahead as the government looks to change the scheme of controls which apply to local power companies.


    It's going just as everyone has been expecting. We'll probably see the year-on-year (CPI) increase jump to 0.3 or 0.4 percent next month as the effect of one-off factors last year fades, giving the BOJ more confidence about a policy change.

    The underlying Mercedes margin excluding one-off items and provision releases was significantly weaker than expected. That was an area where the market was prepared for upside surprise.


    Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.

    It is always great to get an award - particularly when it talks about a lifetime achievement, ... There's something about starting and keeping going, rather than a one-off spike.

    He'd better be, because the new space race already is under way and competition is shaping up as fierce. Rutan's chief rival may ultimately be Elon Musk. A former Internet mogul who in 2002 sold his online payment company, PayPal, to eBay for 1.5 billion in stock, Musk now runs SpaceX in El Segundo, Calif., which is developing an orbital space vehicle. Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne. Musk has already put more than 50 million into SpaceX and says he is prepared to invest 50 million more. He expects it to take at least five years to get passengers into orbit. In the meantime, SpaceX is generating revenue by booking orders to launch satellites its first such launch is scheduled for January. Our earned revenue will be 35 million after a little more than two years of operation, ... By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of 10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.



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