Example sentences of "[adv] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 2 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 8 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At last , faint and far off in the total blackness which now surrounded him , he saw another gleam of light . |
| 11 | Edward Crumwallis did one of his characteristic swerves , and went abruptly off in the other direction . |