Example sentences of "well [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The a in comparison , the A sixty four north has I think o scores better on almost all of the criteria . |
| 2 | how you getting on better down , you know , your poll tax business , are you getting any relief on the cheaper unit ? |
| 3 | Erm again beech was doing much better in and the scotch pine , one of the best places for scotch pine and beech . |
| 4 | We think she could probably be able to stand Sandy 's loss a bit better in , say , a couple of years ’ time . |
| 5 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 6 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 7 | I would be better off in Canada , free of all these tethers . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll be better off when they 're part of Europe , ’ I rejoin , now in the pub doorway . |
| 9 | A class which has a rest every 3 or 4 minutes but trains for an hour would be better off training non-stop for 30 minutes . |
| 10 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 11 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 12 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 13 | Making a political virtue out of cutting taxes to the better off , in order to encourage them to give money to charity to meet the needs of others , is , to say the least , contrary . |
| 14 | The ‘ expellees ’ have in any case ‘ isolated themselves ’ from East German society , they are ‘ mindless strays ’ , many of them are ‘ antisocial ’ and the country is better off without them . |
| 15 | Although reality never matched the propaganda , people were better off , they had plenty to eat , the housing shortage was less critical , the atmosphere more relaxed . |
| 16 | The family that owns and uses a car , for work and play , is usually better off … simply because it owns and uses a car . |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar when she claimed 88 per cent of claimants would be better off after changes to social security benefits introduced in April 1988 . |
| 18 | You would therefore need to be able to buy the Metro for about £5,200 cash or less to be better off financing the deal yourself . |
| 19 | You 're better off leaving them there , for Christ 's sake . |
| 20 | The other side of the coin was the increasing subjection in 1922 of the poor peasants to those better off . |
| 21 | In the subsequent scramble for survival and enrichment which mounted towards the end of 1922 , it was not surprising that those who were slightly better off often took a kind of revenge in driving hard bargains with their poorer neighbours , as has been noted earlier . |
| 22 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 23 | The financial measures consistently improved the lot of the already better off while worsening that of the badly off … such a Government can not promote community . ’ |
| 24 | In many ways I am better off than the others , I work downstairs . |
| 25 | The working man 's 47.7 hours a week in 1964 should have earned him £18.11 ( say £162 a week now ) , but MPs were about to become markedly better off than that as Mr Wilson increased their salaries from £1750 to £3250 per annum ( £29,120 ) . |
| 26 | Dunphy , an Irish international , was better off than most , but the awful uncertainty of the job , the fear of failure or injury , were always present . |
| 27 | Pakistanis have the added stigma in the eyes of the white hooligan of tending to be better off , linguistically separate , less physical , and less interested in football . |
| 28 | You may well be better off without him instead of living in limbo , not knowing what he 's thinking or why he 's acting in this way . |
| 29 | It was a distressing part of his duty to have to tell people things they were better off without hearing . |
| 30 | However , this is the 3-inch drive peculiar to Amstrad products , and you would be better off paying the extra £35 for a discount Atari ST . |