Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd be much better off in the dining-room , ’ Alexandra said to the mice . |
| 3 | SOCIAL Security Secretary Peter Lilley was under fire last night for claiming the Government had protected the less well off through the recession . |
| 4 | But I said to him look Josh is n't exactly well off at the moment , he needs the money or what he bought so |
| 5 | so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way |
| 6 | Yeah probably so yeah , and at this time of year they 're fetching so ridiculous in low money anyway , probably better off in the summer when the lads want to go out , out and about , well they 're not bothered now nobody wants to go anywhere do they ? |
| 7 | If tension was so high in an area not stricken by famine , it may be assumed that as much or more violence occurred in regions like the Ukraine and Tambov guberniia , which were nearly as badly off as the Volga . |
| 8 | It was a big undertaking , this farm , with hired hands on a permanent basis , so they were pretty well off by the standards of Baldersdale . |
| 9 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |