The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base.

I hung the clothes on the back of the door.

My book with Professor [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien – any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear on the Greek Kalends!

On the face of it, Condor has quite a winning hand. It offers a fast transit that no road vehicle can touch for door-to-door speed.