Example sentences of "well off [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 2 | Toby Balding 's Directly ran third to Imperial Brush last season and is 7lb better off but he was beaten over 14 lengths into fourth place behind Rusty Roc at Ludlow last time out . |
| 3 | Eastleigh is now 5lb better off but he went to Doncaster with the benefit of three all-weather runs this year , and Big Leap , having only the third race of his career there , should confirm the form . |
| 4 | Family Money-Go-Round : ‘ Better off but very saddened ’ |
| 5 | Instead , Cecil King , who had pledged the TUC he would keep the paper alive till the end of the decade ( providing its obvious description as King 's cross ) , tried to take it up market and appeal to the younger voters , better off but ‘ socially radical ’ , whose support had just helped elect Harold Wilson into office . |
| 6 | David is better off but Susie is worse off . |
| 7 | The financial measures consistently improved the lot of the already better off while worsening that of the badly off … such a Government can not promote community . ’ |
| 8 | But where where we 're better off 'cos Albert , he 's calm , where you and our Colin are both fiery tempered |
| 9 | In many ways I am better off than the others , I work downstairs . |
| 10 | The working man 's 47.7 hours a week in 1964 should have earned him £18.11 ( say £162 a week now ) , but MPs were about to become markedly better off than that as Mr Wilson increased their salaries from £1750 to £3250 per annum ( £29,120 ) . |
| 11 | Dunphy , an Irish international , was better off than most , but the awful uncertainty of the job , the fear of failure or injury , were always present . |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 13 | But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year . |
| 14 | With only 400,000 people and lots of bauxite , there is no good reason why Suriname should not be as democratic as and rather better off than most of the little states of the Caribbean . |
| 15 | Although American car workers will get a lot more free time in the months to come , they will at least be better off than they were a decade ago . |
| 16 | The initial allocation of property rights affects the distribution of income ; in other words , if you own something , you are better off than if you do not . |
| 17 | However much the buyer may complain , he acted voluntarily : he is better off than he would otherwise have been . |
| 18 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 19 | If Protestants are better off than Catholics in Ulster , it is because they work harder and have fewer children . |
| 20 | Had he succeeded , Ireland might have been annexed to France , though , mind you , we 'd have been no better off than under England . |
| 21 | There are plenty of cases in which each member of a co-operating group is better off than it would be on its own . |
| 22 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 23 | Alter more than 10 years of ‘ debate ’ we seem to be little better off than before — indeed the lack of motivation is , if anything , more acute than ever . |
| 24 | In terms of space , sunlight and unpolluted air , the squatters are better off than they were in the crowded , unventilated and noisy slum courts . |
| 25 | ‘ People who have n't seen my ( early ) movies are better off than I am … but like all actors I needed the work . |
| 26 | But other factors cross-cut and a given lone-parent family may still be better off than if they were in a two-parent household characterized by vindictiveness , meanness , or violence ( Pahl , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're better off than the others , if you take on Gary 's horse . |
| 28 | They were rather better off than most , I think , and they owned an inn called New Spittal , between Bowes and Brough , over to the west . |
| 29 | As it happens , she was much better off than me because her weekly wage was five shillings . |
| 30 | 'Nothing seems to go right and everyone else is better off than we are . ’ |