Example sentences of "[adv] off in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 2 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 3 | The average pensioner is 32% better off in real terms than the average pensioner in 1979 . |
| 4 | The world , at least the British world , was better off in 1901 than it had been in 1801 , so why should it not be even better in 2001 ? |
| 5 | I 've , I 've I 've often thought I would never vote Tory but , I mean , I 've been better off in some ways in that I was able to buy my council house . |
| 6 | Further off in that direction , on the site of the modern village of Makroteichos , there were Minoan houses and traces of Minoan houses have been found as far north as Palaiomilo , some 600 metres north of the temple precinct : beyond this area was the northern cemetery of Zafer Papoura . |
| 7 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the government admitted that most people would be around 30 per cent worse off in real terms . |
| 9 | Within this group however , families headed by a full-time worker saw average income rises of 21 per cent , yet those families with an unemployed head were slightly worse off in 1988 than in 1981 . |
| 10 | Jeremy , I , I said it was a , a particularly bad problem , er we , we are worse off in this area for homelessness that a lot of other places are n't we ? |
| 11 | The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab . |
| 12 | The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab , see above . |
| 13 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 14 | They appeared at last and he got them safely off in one canoe . |