Example sentences of "[art] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does it a little better than most , that 's all . |
| 2 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 3 | We can do a little better than ‘ chance ’ . |
| 4 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 5 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 6 | Thirty-nine per cent of men rate their sexual performance as ‘ average ’ ; 29% say they do n't know ; 17% think it 's a little better than most . |
| 7 | A coin dealer later offered me £100.00 for my find , which he described as ‘ a common type in a little better than F-grade . ’ |
| 8 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 9 | This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing . |
| 10 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , ’ Theda said drily , ‘ but I know him a little better than that ! ’ |
| 12 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 13 | One side gets a little better because the other side has . |
| 14 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 15 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 16 | I was n't entirely convinced by the ‘ unique ’ bit : it came across as a slightly better than average bottled beer , with possibly a stronger flavour than some . |
| 17 | I was n't entirely convinced by the ‘ unique ’ bit : it came across as a slightly better than average bottled beer , with possibly a stronger flavour than some . |
| 18 | I was n't entirely convinced by the ‘ unique ’ bit : it came across as a slightly better than average bottled beer , with possibly a stronger flavour than some . |
| 19 | I have frequented pool-rooms for over twenty years , and at one pool-room game , n three-cushion billiards , am considered a far better than average player . ’ |