Example sentences of "[noun pl] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have come to know her employers better than many others , and certainly in a quite different and unusual way . |
| 2 | It 's easy to get set yourself and with heated curlers , tongs and styling products better than ever before , all you need is a little practice to create the perfect style . |
| 3 | And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training . |
| 4 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 5 | The fact is that they are a million times better than many of the new trainers on the market and a lot harder to find . |
| 6 | At a constant 56mph , Volvo claims fuel consumption of 54mpg and exhaust emissions up to 25 times better than California 's 1993 laws , the world 's toughest . |
| 7 | It does over 2,000 input-output operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says ; it costs $170,000 with 28.8Gb disk . |
| 8 | PENTIUM FLOATING POINT UNIT 3 TO 10 TIMES BETTER THAN 80486 |
| 9 | Intel Corp is saying its revamped Pentium floating point unit operates three to 10 times better than the one in the 80486's , apparently positioning it against RISCs like the MIPS Technologies Inc R4000 . |
| 10 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 11 | It does over 2,000 input operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says . |
| 12 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 13 | These were Cypripack plastic media which Cyprio offer as a cheaper alternative to foam ( which they say is 3 to 8 times better than most plastic media ) . |
| 14 | Any of them would be a thousand times better than Drummle ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a thousand times better than you are ! ’ |
| 16 | Lasers run at 300 dots per inch , about four times better than a matrix printer . |
| 17 | At their best ink-jet printers can produce an output quality several times better than that of the average matrix printer . |
| 18 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |
| 19 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 20 | This was a million times better than dreams . |
| 21 | Microsoft claims FoxPro 2.5 performed at least four times better than its closest rival , Borland 's Paradox 4.0 , in tests carried out by a third party consultant.FoxPro 2.5 will eventually be released for non-Windows DOS , Apple Mac and Unix platforms . |
| 22 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |
| 23 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 24 | No matter how badly designed it is , it 's a thousand times better than what was here before . |
| 25 | This can then be searched over a Local Area Network by up to 25 users simultaneously , a speed performance ten times better than the best CD-ROM can normally offer . |
| 26 | The result is that ‘ a listed Church of England church has a chance of avoiding demolition nearly three times better than a listed secular building ’ . |
| 27 | And his first goal tends to get forgotten … but it was 100 times better than Cuntona 's effort a few weeks back , and better than Peles effort … in fact probably the best goal of that type ( 45 yard lobs ) youll ever see . |
| 28 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
| 29 | Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five . |
| 30 | MERSEYSIDE 'S battle against car crime reaped rewards last night when the region revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |