Example sentences of "[adv] better [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation is a little better today than it was when Barbara Wootton wrote these words fifteen years ago in Social Science and Social Pathology . |
| 2 | ‘ Things are a little better now than they were . |
| 3 | It 's all much better now than it was . |
| 4 | Multinationals , they have erm , , doing much better abroad than it is doing in France . |
| 5 | The West Indians could sell tourism , or promote local interests ( in sugar , bananas , bauxite and so on ) far better together than apart . |
| 6 | They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally . |
| 7 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 8 | That very same choir features in this new release from Philips but , while it acquits itself considerably better here than in the other , it is not the fervent , stylish singing to set hearts on fire or in any other way deeply stir the emotions . |