Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] off [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 2 | Some tenants would be better off or only slightly worse off when unemployed , because housing benefit would then cover their rents in full . |
| 3 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even when there are n't seemingly many jobs for anybody I think a mathematician is probably as well off as anybody to get a job , almost at every level . |
| 6 | You 're probably far better off than your Danish equivalent . |
| 7 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 8 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 9 | You may find that with judicious use of available cash you 're not quite as badly off as you feared . |
| 10 | But taking your point about er , you know you 've got , you 've incurred these expenses anyway , therefore at the end of the day , you 're not that much better off than er |
| 11 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |