Example sentences of "[adv] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would be better off in the personnel department . |
| 2 | In the long run the West could help Russia and Eastern Europe more by opening its markets to their produce than by handing over cash — and would immediately make itself a lot better off in the process ( see page 50 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps he might he better off in the works office ? |
| 4 | Even once a predator has found a school , the prey fish are better off in the school than they would be alone , as has been proved by the following experiment . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd be much better off in the dining-room , ’ Alexandra said to the mice . |
| 6 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 7 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 8 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 9 | Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year . |
| 10 | Yes , yes I do n't think that on our next buy , what with the next year I would be a bit better off in the sense that I should have sold my house , bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so I have a little extra monthly income , I should be living in somewhere that 's cheaper to run |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way |
| 13 | They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level . |
| 14 | Somewhere off in the distance , the sound of Bill Haley was heard . |
| 15 | There was only birdsong , and a splashing of water somewhere off in the woods . |
| 16 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 17 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 18 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 19 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 20 | They said that one could not solve unemployment on such a scale and that if one invested £1 million in one area , having taken it away from profitable Birmingham or wherever , it would leave us worse off in the end . |
| 21 | At that moment there was the sound of a horn far off in the forest . |
| 22 | The only life they saw were a few curlews , and once an eagle far off in the west , circling the heights . |
| 23 | At last , faint and far off in the total blackness which now surrounded him , he saw another gleam of light . |
| 24 | Edward Crumwallis did one of his characteristic swerves , and went abruptly off in the other direction . |