Example sentences of "a [adv] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides which , there are some artists whom it is a pleasure to know even a little better from their letters . |
| 2 | But last two days a little better . |
| 3 | Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better , but still somewhat hum-drum . |
| 4 | In fact , almost everything before seven is business news with men in suits watching over the pound like doctors : ‘ And the latest news from Tokyo — it seems to be a little better . |
| 5 | If the BBC is to be persuaded to buy more drama from the independent street traders outside the building the merchandise will need to be a little better finished than this . |
| 6 | Too few filmmakers have recognized that the argument for a British cinema could only begin when they showed a readiness to listen to people 's dreams and nightmares , and play them back to audiences in exciting narratives that would enable those watching to know themselves a little better , and to feel a widening sense of possibility in the way they shaped their lives . |
| 7 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 8 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 9 | There would be change enough from her £5,000 after the funeral expenses had been paid , and I felt a little better after that . |
| 10 | ‘ Prospects look very good , with yields at least as good as last year , if not a little better , ’ he adds . |
| 11 | She does it a little better than most , that 's all . |
| 12 | I lit a cigarette , gulped the water , and started to feel a little better . |
| 13 | The election result has made fund managers ‘ much more confident ’ about the outlook for the equity market : all but a handful believe the economic situation will ‘ get a lot or a little better ’ over the next year . |
| 14 | Chile had a similar 28 per cent and Peru 29 per cent , while Venezuela and Brazil fared a little better with 31 per cent and 32 per cent of the total population in the labour force ( World in Figures 1978 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ After the first it did n't work ; after the second things were a little better ; after the third his hand worked by itself ’ . |
| 16 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 17 | But now I 've made two trips there and I 'm anxious to go back because I feel I 'm getting tapped in a little better , I 'm getting emotionally connected . |
| 18 | We can do a little better than ‘ chance ’ . |
| 19 | The second house went a little better , but not much . |
| 20 | got a little better |
| 21 | Margaret had been coping a little better and her sleep pattern had returned to normal . |
| 22 | One secret that is kept a little better is the prize list for the ABSW/Glaxo awards for science writing . |
| 23 | The House of Commons may be the cradle of our democracy — a little better understood perhaps now that its proceedings are televised . |
| 24 | Well , the first time he came out of the door when he was a little better , he shouted for Dick , who was in the top pasture . |
| 25 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 26 | The delay gave us a chance to get to know the King a little better . |
| 27 | ‘ Feeling a little better , my dear ? ’ |
| 28 | Although the effects of loss vary from one individual to another , on the whole it seems that men tend to fare a little better in bereavement than women , and fewer of them are found to be in need of psychiatric treatment for chronic grief and depression . |
| 29 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 30 | I only hope that when I am their age I will act a little better . |