Example sentences of "far well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishes below are filling and delicious , while at the same time ‘ good for you ’ — far better than a chocolate bar or sweet biscuits . |
| 2 | The head need n't take the role of guide , a child can often do the job far better than an adult . |
| 3 | In 1958 regular recruiting went far better than the demographers had predicted , and the Army Council was able to substantiate its claim for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 4 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 5 | Gnostic teachers claimed that their dualism explained the origin of evil far better than the orthodox church 's view that the created world comes from a perfectly good and all-powerful God . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
| 7 | Their wives were chic , exquisitely dressed — far better than the majority of women in post-war Paris . |
| 8 | We Westerners find it hard to understand or admire the growth and success of Islamic fundamentalism , but the traditional Muslims have realised far better than the ‘ progressives ’ that if you want to resist consumerism and individualism then you have to capture the public ground and control the country from the centre . |
| 9 | Though subjective , they are analytical , semi-quantitabe measurements — far better than the general assessments made by even very experienced field testers . |
| 10 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 11 | Even if this classification scheme could be improved upon , it clearly serves far better than the traditional indicators in identifying those areas most in need of extra resources , in order to compensate for poverty and deprivation , through educational and personal social service provision . |
| 12 | This ethos fits the ‘ acute ’ model far better than the ‘ chronic ’ one . |
| 13 | If you are nervous , console yourself with the thought that the initially nervous speaker often performs far better than the stolid chap with no nerves . |
| 14 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 15 | It is very friendly and easy to use , far better than the Windows file manager . |
| 16 | Company exhibitions manager Rob Axon said : ‘ It was built from scratch to our own design and so will prove far better than the old trailer . |
| 17 | Merely supplying their populations with food and money does not remove the true nature of the problem — far better that the conditions be changed by giving opportunity to the inhabitants to provide for themselves , because when the money of the charity runs out , the unsolved problems and starvation return . |