"We'd been working our tail off on the airplane, " Yeager told me during a phone interview.
He competes his tail off, understands that he gave his team a great opportunity to win.
If I did three months of 400m, I think performances might tail off a bit.
Many shale plays flow vigorously for just a few weeks and then tail off dramatically.
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Even if productivity growth does tail off, it may still be strong enough to match sluggish demand.
If accepted, that might require the government to raise its fiscal target even as recovery starts to tail off.
While the last few years has seen alcohol consumption tail off, the current figure is still 40% higher than it was 40 years ago.
That has led to concerns that demand for commodities from China may tail off and further impact prices and hurt company profits.
But the loudly proclaimed 2000 deadline caused research funding to tail off.
After all, Brzezinski was working her tail off on "Morning Joe, " helping take it from an unknown MSNBC show to a political commodity.
The European Central Bank has finally unveiled its plans for when it will tail off its support for euro zone banks with cheap loans.
We have to accept that we are seeing an explosion in cases and that there's no guarantee they will suddenly start to tail off.
As the country gets richer and its working-age population starts to shrink, that growth rate is likely to tail off to perhaps 8% soon.
If you're on top of your game, you start new projects early enough that they'll have strong revenue and momentum by the time your older products tail off.
However, French shoppers were lured to the cash tills by discounts and there are mounting concerns that both corporate and consumer spending may now tail off in coming months.
Roy (Hibbert) and Ian (Mahinmi) are giving great protection at the rim, and Paul George is working his tail off to do the best he can to try to limit him.
The laughs tail off a little when the boys decide to put aside childish things and earn their keep -- as they must -- but this is just a temporary blip.
At the time, there was considerable uncertainty among demographers and actuaries about whether or not the substantial increase in life expectancy seen in the past couple of decades would continue or start to tail off.
The company also has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in fiber-optic communications to provide broadband service to business customers, Azarbad said, and that investment is showing the first signs of paying off while capital expenditures tail off.
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But I also want to recognize Justice Yvette McGee Brown for her service, and she's here today as well. (Applause.) And of course, we have a surprise guest, one of our dear friends who has been working his tail off -- and we love him.
But according to Nielsen's data, Facebook's U.K. tail-off in January was mirrored in other European countries, too.
Leeds have not been helped by the tail-off in form of some of their principle performers from the first half of the season.
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Instead, it pounces for the kill or, if you're lucky, stares you down with its yellow eyes and then, with a disdainful flick of the tail, saunters off.
It was a series of startling discoveries on an Indian reservation in North Vancouver, British Columbia: the carcasses of some 50 eagles, their talons and tail feathers sliced off.
As these one-off boosts tail away, banks' earnings per share will grow more slowly.
Jo Watts polished off the tail as Sri Lanka were all out in 29.4 overs.
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Opener Daryl Mitchell and captain Vikram Solanki fell quickly to Harrison who then polished off the tail.
She was unbeaten on 52 (off 118 balls) when Birch finished off the tail in the final over of the innings.
"We are not just chopping off the tail of the waiting list, we are hitting the targets, " he told the magazine Health Service Journal.
Matt Nicholson's unbeaten 40 earned Surrey a second batting point, before Tomlinson and Tremlett finished off the tail in time to allow two overs of Hampshire batting.
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