How To Use Better off In A Sentence

Another constant thread is lesbianism, as if to say that women are better off without men.
Unless you're willing to bone up on the subject, you're better off to assess his technical ability by asking for references and checking them out.
Would Britain be better off as a theme park?
Many folks have stated in many ways that even if CxP had had all of Shuttles bucks for the past five years, CxP wouldn't be any better off than it is now, because of mismanagement & misspending. Minor Damage Seen on Atlantis - NASA Watch
We would be better off outlawing tobacco and alcohol while legalizing maryjane. Obama admits to smoking on occasion

Economic theory shows that * everybody* could be better off if the losers are compensated from the country's gains. Trade Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Equally, the vendor can pull out if a better offer comes along, or if they retract from the market. Homebuying: A contract to keep the gazumpers from your door
Give the same role and we all would be better off watching ground beef spoil.
Seventy per cent of households will be better off or unaffected by our plans.
If there are scumbags thieving from the public coffers and we expose them and punish them, then the rule of law is upheld and we are all better off. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Scandal in Black & White
Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air: Would we have been better off without Home Rule?
People with diverse resources and plans can cooperate in ways that leave them all better off.
If not radically reformed, it will continue to consume our freedom and earnings like a swarm of locusts consumes a wheat field until we in America are no better off than the simple serfs of feudal times.
If not, he is better off to take the money now and either spend it or invest it and earn interest.
They admitted removing the equipment and using it before returning it later. arket was up from the outset, with shares gaining momentum shortly after midday when Wellcome rejected Glaxo's blockbuster 8.9 billion stg bid, saying it was actively seeking a better offer. ANC Daily News Briefing
New taxes on wealth could redistribute money from older, better off Australians into education, health, and unemployment accounts for young Australians.
They were an instant success and became fashionable accessories, at least for the better off. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
Investors would have been better off putting their cash in a deposit account. Times, Sunday Times
They end up spending nearly TWICE as much of their income on filling their cars as the better off. The Sun
It was a shame that it clashed with the Wales - Ireland Six Nations rugby match, but looking back, people may have been better off watching the volleyball instead.
Mr. Moore has consistently waded into controversial issues with his rather pro-Communistic andbig government type views that this country would be better off if only it was under a more socialistic or communistic structure. Global Socialism Leaning Michael Moore States Capitalism Has Failed
Doesn't mean it isn't an absolute stomper, though, or that rugby would be better off without it. Times, Sunday Times
We now know he would have been a lot better off just eating them. Times, Sunday Times
He said if Darlington received the regional average increase the town's health services would be ￡1.3m better off.
McCain answer is to stick by what he knows is right and limit the child, child may still be angry with parent however the child is better off for the decision to be limited. GI Bill poses challenge to McCain
But he might have been better off sharing the secrets of his own diet with the chubby forward rather than feeding him fish. The Sun
They are better off dead than alive in stinking “Gitmo.” Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’
Nearly a decade later, our educational system was no better off than it had been when the commission issued its report.
Obviously we're better off now we're both working.
With the planetary emphasis on new ideas, you're better off learning as much as you can. Times, Sunday Times
If column 3 exceeds column 2, the Jones Enterprise would be better off doing something else with its resources.
Indeed if the world knows no justice, we're better off staying maladjusted. Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension
The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.
San Francisco had been going on, and his business had quadrupled and octupled, and yet he was no better off. Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers
Obviously we're better off now we're both working.
With the planetary emphasis on new ideas, you're better off learning as much as you can. Times, Sunday Times
Is it really so obvious now that the hospital and economy is better off having 'innovated' away the low skilled job with a system of robots? The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In my opinion, Abercrombie would be better off changing his plans and deciding to write a quadrilogy. Joe Abercrombie - Last Argument of Kings (BlindMan's Book Review)
But all Americans would be much better off if Indians felt unalienated, and proudly and unambivalently Indian and American, just as the Frisians feel proud to be both Frisian and Dutch.
It's a primitive, benighted method of ordering life that is based mostly on coercion and the world would be much better off if all its forms were banned forever.
It also has an online travel magazine and a link to motoring advice on winter driving, off-roading and tyres - which carries the suggestion, you'll be amazed to learn, that you're better off with Michelin.
You would be better off with a semi-skimmed standard latte with 188 calories. Times, Sunday Times
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. Jerry Seinfeld
Small households that don't use much water but occupy homes with high rateable values could be much better off.
Benefits will also be overhauled to make sure people are always better off in work. The Sun
But wealth accumulators aren't not just better off for it, they also feel better about their lives.
Considering that an armed sitting duck was better off than the plain old garden-variety sitting duck, he parlayed a Ruger.30 Blackhawk to add to his utility belt.
In his preface to the book he speaks of her as a fair representation, at the time it was published, of the hired attendant on the poor in sickness: but he might have added that the rich were no better off, for Mrs. Gamp's original was in reality a person hired by a most distinguished friend of his own, a lady, to take charge of an invalid very dear to her; and the common habit of this nurse in the sick room, among other Gampish peculiarities, was to rub her nose along the top of the tall fender. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
Customers at neighbouring tables sampling carrot cake, gateaux and chocolate fudge cake with cream seemed to be no better off than us.
That's why those who want the griff on the Duke of X and Waity Katie are really better off here. Hugh Muir's Diary
These can still be quite pricey - you might be better off using an internet café. Times, Sunday Times
If you're pumping iron, then you're better off wearing a pair of cross trainers because they offer better lateral stability.
There are a few sites that reverse this process by using a light text on dark background, which is found acceptable in some cases, but you are better off using dark on light for your overall content.
The average person in the street is a lot better off than they were forty years ago.
If it failed. and the snorter came from anywhere between southwest and north, back the Mary Rogers would be hurled and be no better off than she had been seven weeks before. MAKE WESTING
Some fight and would be better off heading for the divorce courts. The Sun
If you've waited a day to crack your joke, you're better off finding the next thing to snark about.
Never minimize their pain -- Telling a griever that their pain isn't so bad, that their loved one is better off in heaven, or that "time heals all wounds" does not help. Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW: How to Console a Grieving Friend During the Holidays
Oh Brendan, if you really make a life with this battleaxe, you can kiss your balls goodbye, though after your honeymoon, they'll be so disease-ridden, you'll be better off without them anyway. Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back!
She says "geez" and "heck" (twice) ( "I believe that I'm a heck of a lot better off putting my life in God's hands, and saying hey, you know, guide me") and invokes God, as in "thank God I don't have time to follow [blogs]. Whatever It Is, I’m Against It
I am financially better off, but they have had a great life tapestry. Times, Sunday Times
He favoured more road tolling and congestion charging, and 'co-payment', where users of services who were better off contributed more. Times, Sunday Times
If a trader, therefore, has alternative or multiple income streams, they may be better off to incorporate their business as a company and reinvest the profits back into it.
So much so that hospitals would probably be better off enlisting those volunteers to provide blood to needy civilians because the army generally has a fairly good stock of blood.
Likewise, I am not convinced that manhole is better off as personhole. Why do so many people hate gender-neutral words? (Oh, s—!) « Motivated Grammar
This suggests that developers might be better off concentrating their energies on PDAs and other devices with larger footprints and screens.
But once it's initiated, there's a lot of good data that's indicating that the earlier you start therapy, the better off you are from the standpoint of not allowing the virus to form a non-eradicable reservoir, namely such a reservoir that even if you stop therapy after years, the virus is still there, and how you can prevent the really progressive destruction of the immune system, which takes place over years. Scientists Say A Gel Can Slow HIV Spread
Baxter said it will hold a conference call this morning to persuade Wall Street that it has the better offer.
The average return was a miserly 4.6 per cent - investors would have been better off putting their money into a deposit account. Times, Sunday Times
They see no purpose in funding something of no great interest to the better off. The Sun
He said that I would be better off if I resigned when I began looking for another job because I would not want it on my record that I was terminated.
Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. Baltasar Gracian
No doubt it would have been better off there, but once conceived, the idea of the melodrama had overpowered both men. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
True, but think how much better off we are now that our universities accept "riffraff" such as women, the poor, and the non-white. David Weinberger: Andrew Keen's Best Case
Other people were also better off, because much of the extra money had been spent locally, benefiting shopkeepers and small enterprises. Times, Sunday Times
Other people were also better off, because much of the extra money had been spent locally, benefiting shopkeepers and small enterprises. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps they’d be better off starting a little closer to home - perhaps doubling funding for homeless or IVDU support, or perhaps community programs out @ Punchbowl. Cheeseburger Gothic » Remember how the city council cookie crisis led to General Jackson’s little coup in WW?
Unless you or some other neocon robot talking-point parrot has worked out a way to efficiently, efficaciously (and within a reasonable budget) oust 20 million people from this country without committing crimes against humanity, then you're probably better off keeping your bigotted yaps shut while the adults handle it. Gingrich holds jobs summit one day before Obama's
When it comes right down to it though, perhaps you're better off not owning all these fancy gadgets and gizmos.
Also you may be better off getting a yearly cover - especially if you do travel quite a lot.
With all the problems that linguistic diversity presents us with, would we be better off without it? The Times Literary Supplement
The more people try to conserve, reduce, reuse, & recycle the better off we will be. bret carr Says: Commercializing Solar Power with Molten Salt | Inhabitat
So anyone who used the gym more than twice a month would be better off with membership. Times, Sunday Times
A lone parent with one child working 35 hours at the minimum wage is now £79 a week better off in work than on benefit.
Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. Baltasar Gracian
Lawson might have been better off waiting for Edinburgh's new coach to be appointed before making any hasty decision.
There is a bargain that would make both creditors and debtors better off. Times, Sunday Times
Either human life is ennobled by the dangers and rewards of freedom or we are better off when governments baby-proof reality and shepherd us to the good. Enter Stage Right
A visit to the parlor from the Marmion Plantation in Virginia located in the Met's Gallery 720, however, might provide a bit of encouraging perspective; some of the descendants of the slaves who likely tended the parlor's guests may have been lured into subprime mortgages while their White counterparts were given better deals, but you'd have to be dottier than a guy who wants to arrest judges not to realize that we are all better off than we were during the "good old days" for which certain social luddites yearn. Tanya M. Acker: Ditch the Xanax: Why the Metropolitan Museum Is a Better Cure for American Grumpiness
How could an economy grow, and benefit from rising spending, if people were not getting better off? Times, Sunday Times
I really think you're better off with some nice breathable cotton Y-fronts and some surf shorts. Times, Sunday Times
Some days he is blinding, and destroys top class defences, but other times he is the quietest player on the pitch and would be better off staying at home.
He's caught in the poverty trap and will only be five pounds a week better off if he accepts the job.
Perhaps we are better off in the slow lane. Times, Sunday Times
You and your pot-bellied followers are better off just wrapping yourself in the flag and clutch your bible in one hand and your picture of Sarah in the other. Think Progress » Price expands GOP repeal campaign: We should repeal all of TARP, the stimulus, and ‘the bailout philosophy.’
Without you by my side, I will be better off than you.
I've cheated, copied and grifted my way through, but with the content of this exam, I'm better off faking the flu. Tracey D. Smith: 'Twas the Night Before Exams
* If you can't shoot anything bigger for dangerous game, you're a lot better off with a .375 than with a cannon that petrifies you. The .375 H&H: Fraud or Scam?
The average student is much better off under our arrangements of a combined grant and loan scheme than previously.
Accordingly, the view that government would be better off regulating rather than owning various key utilities, including media and telecommunications, is now ideologically uncontentious.
Ring the changes with smoked duck or other game and you will be better off with a delicious smoky, grapey, musky muscat.
You're better off when you're not with people who can't handle your awesomeness.
But I think at this stage, we're better off taking the risk and hitting the traffickers than burdening the farmers with a major eradication program.
You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.
You could have sticky toffee pudding and a piece of cheesecake instead and still be 162 calories better off. Times, Sunday Times
Those on the lowest variable deals are still better off staying put for now. Times, Sunday Times
Many borrowers could be better off repaying unsecured debts before they apply for a mortgage. Times, Sunday Times
But people on means-tested benefits may not be very much better off overall. Times, Sunday Times
He accepts that both the businesses and he are better off divorced from one another. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
You have to go into a venture expecting to become much better off than you are now. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo bobbylee Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05: 26 PM EST Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
The anticapitalist movement to tear down the system will make us equally poor, not progressively better off. Times, Sunday Times
So while superb fairy-wrens would be better off abandoning cuckoos at the egg stage, because this has become so difficult it pays to abandon the cuckoo chick instead.
Money is better off being spent to care for people in their own homes and in the community rather than being spent on hi-tech services and acute beds in hospitals.
John says: orca: We would have been better off keeping our drone use a secret instead of bragging to the press aboutthem. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
“The Democrats would be much better off in that case with a blander, more faceless, less exciting Kerry, Gephardt or even Lieberman” Matthew Yglesias » The Case for a Feisty Left
The average person in the street is a lot better off than they were forty years ago.
They might have been better off calling the RAF - witness this remarkable photograph also courtesty of FW of an RAF Chinook lifting a pea viner out of the mire. Archive 2007-08-01
Those on the lowest variable deals are still better off staying put for now. Times, Sunday Times
If a RB on your roster with a bye week has the short end of the stick in a running back by committee situation, depending on the quality of your remaining RBs you may be better off cutting your current RB and speculating on a RB who will likely get a chance to start at some point this season hint: look for RBs playing behind starters who are injury-prone or facing an upcoming suspension Scott Swanay: Fantasy Football - Week 5 Preview
Tatton in Cheshire came top, and it is amusing to learn that certain Sheffield residents are better off than the toffs from Kensington and Chelsea.
For something a little more substantial, you might be better off with the week's other French release or, to be specific, re-release.
With the cost of childcare she would be better off financially if she did not work. Times, Sunday Times
The late Herbert Stein essayed on the relativity of wealth in 1996 for the Journal editorial page in an article titled ‘Am I Better Off?’
Though the food may be simple at these events (everyone eats the samp and beef from communal basins), the hierarchies and ‘ranked strata’ that pertain at the funerals of the better off are cast aside.
If you are willing to pay more for synthetic oil, then your quad is probably better off with it than with conventional oil. Synthetic vs.
Sen. Dole would be much better off spending his energies calling the "miserable creatures" that are the current Republican leadership on the carpet for the disservice that have done this country – the one they all swore they would unswervingly serve. scot is for Obama now Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature'
better off 'overpaying' their Sipp by £300, rather than overpaying their mortgage over the Top stories from Times Online
On the theoretical side, IRV often works such that voters would be better off staying home or ranking their preferred candidates lower (this is called a violation of “monotonicity”). Matthew Yglesias » David Miliband Doesn’t Know What Century It Is
Without change we would be better off dipping our fingers in indelible ink. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, you may be better off emphasizing one over the other during alternate training cycles.
The main reason is that only the better off may be able to afford to move into separate accommodation and wait for two years before reaching a property settlement in the divorce suit.
This may mean accepting one, only to turn down that employer in favour of another when a better offer comes along. Times, Sunday Times
They've actually hit upon a touchy topic here, so the less you let them know it bothers you, the better off you'll be.
We think she's better off as an addition to a family, despised by the first wife and her family***. Selling women in Kelantan??
But I'm much better off than members of other platoons in my company who are living in tents or bombed buildings in the desert sand.
Other countries can exploit our goodwill, and be asymetrically better off than through MFN/bilateral agreements. Trade Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Within hours of excoriating the gays in San Francisco for "defiling" his church, he was chortling with the queen of venom, Ann Coulter, on his TV show about her vile remarks that all Jews need to be "perfected," and we'd be better off without any Jews in this country. O'Reilly Rants At Catholic Bashers While Chortling With Coulter and Her Defaming Jews
You may be better off, financially, investing your bankroll and mortgaging the house.
Savers with smaller deposits looking for easy access to their money may be better off with either egg or the Nationwide.
People are earning more, but when inflation is factored in, they are no better off.
Even if over the long term you'd be better off if you were able to continue buying bargains. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Britain in particular would be far better off signing a free-trade agreement with the USA.
The world would be better off without terrorism, but governments must not follow policies that recreate the problem.
You would be better off drinking the kale mix. The Sun
Would we be better off obeying physical signals rather than continually overriding them?
Obviously we're better off now we're both working.
So certain Parisian bourgeoisie are better off, with new windows and 50 centimes extra in their wallets. Bastiat Updated
Don't forget that your dentist can prescribe antibiotics, too — so you're better off seeing him for any gnasher trouble. The Sun
You could have sticky toffee pudding and a piece of cheesecake instead and still be 162 calories better off. Times, Sunday Times
We will be much better off with out the pom-pom girl. Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election
Plus, keep in mind that, as a general rule, you are always better off being slightly overdressed rather than underdressed, whatever the occasion.
On the scaffold, Samson was for drawing of his boots: "tush," said Philippe, "they will come better off after; let us have done, depechons-nous! The French Revolution
Just ask yourself, am I better off today than I was during Bill Chintons tenue in the whitehouse. One More Sign That The End Is Near
If we cannot get a better system, we might be better off repealing all antitrust laws.
They would be better off not penalising until they see a clear breach of the law. Times, Sunday Times
You would be better off drinking the kale mix. The Sun
He would be better off seeing the job through atPeterborough United, biding his time for the opportunity to work at abigger club with a sensible owner. Football.co.uk news feed
Wouldn't a law student be better off getting a job during their third year externing for a judge or in some other externship?
Some fight and would be better off heading for the divorce courts. The Sun
Are we better off with fewer medical products?
Money spent both to satisfy universalist dogma and on avoiding a means-test is money paid to the better off individual who does not need it, and kept from the poorer and needier.
You'd've been better off using it to square some of your Dad's debts!
You'd be better off going to your local pub landlord and starting you own comedy club.
The irony is that he would have been two strokes better off had he not been penalised for grounding his club in a bunker during Thursday's first round.
But even for those developing countries who are so much better off, the deficiency in concessionary aid will cause serious financial problems. The World Bank and Redevelopment
I think the animals are better off in a kennel where they are given shelter and attention rather than being landed into a busy house on Christmas day.
Maybe if you stopped going out with such a boring, goody-goody, you'd be much better off.
The combined changes make an average taxpayer two pounds sixty four pence a week better off.
A man who is nearly ninety said to me recently that he always found that the poor during the depression were more generous with the little they had than those who were better off.
`And if that Mr Kohn is perchance one of us, which I doubt, it strikes me we're better off without him," Laura said. OUT OF THE ASHES
This pasta would have been better off described as ricotta and potato anolini as that is what could be tasted. At My Table
Tranh also has a table-turning encounter with a former employee, fired in disgrace by Tranh himself but who is now much better off than his former boss. REVIEW: Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
You are much better off putting the keg into an empty garbage can and packing the surrounding space with ice.
Existing dairy farmers face a situation where non-active dairy farmers, merely by taking their single farm payment, could end up better off than those actively farming.
Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola.
A plate of tripes sounded like a better offer than having to sit through an hour of face-pulling. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
I'd heard about the balayage technique, but after a disastrous run-in with bleach as a teen I was afraid of highlights and thought I'd be better off boring brown.
Western European “explorers” annihilated millions of indigenous people in the “New World” under the pretext that they practiced anthropophagy and were better off dead or enslaved than they were living in their natural “uncivilized” state. Flesh, flesh everywhere, Nor any morsel to eat...
The answer is a categorical no, except in crofting areas, where a few crofters may be a little better off.
I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you!
The letter ends with more acid advice: Since the politician has a lifetime pension, he'd be better off polishing his golf game.
Until, that is, all three threatened to resign on Monday evening if no better offer was forthcoming.
Investors would have been better off putting their cash in a deposit account. Times, Sunday Times
They'd be better off as a lollipop man. The Sun
If you have to eat a cold chip, you're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one.
You'd be better off staying at home with une bouteille de vin rouge’.
But considering all the evidence, you're better off taking zinc lozenges than echinacea the next time you feel a cold coming on.
It has occurred to me many times since this past Monday morning, since I got the phone call summoning me to the doctor's office to discuss what I knew would be bad news, that I might have been better off had I never taken any of those prenatal-got-a-healthy-baby? tests that seemed so compelling back when I was convinced that a perfectly healthy baby was a sure thing in this pregnancy. Archive 2007-11-25
Recreational fishermen say the quality of fishing has been never better off the East Coast and are concerned that allowing a commercial fishery to be developed will ruin their sport.
Welfare economics refers to the subfield of economics that tries to match the mathematics and theory of how people improve their lives and happiness -- their welfare -- with how one could possibly measure or do empirical tests to test whether people are better off. My Latest Paper on Austrian Economics - and Why I Keep Writing Them, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
We would have been better off keeping our drone use a secret instead of bragging to the press aboutthem. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
The average return was a miserly 4.6 per cent - investors would have been better off putting their money into a deposit account. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, there is the argument that the country would be far better off buying the kit for the armed services from the best supplier - of whatever nationality - than featherbedding the defence sector with soft contracts.
Thanks for your write-up, I think if the current research was presented this way (where uncertainties in predictive capability are honestly addressed) more often, rather than the treatment things get in the popular press, we would be much better off. AGU Day 3 part C: How good are predictions from climate models? | Serendipity
Wouldn't they be better off with a waterproof coat with a hood and wellingtons?
Forms of knowledge that simply valorize the ‘feminine’ may not be helpful to women who would be better off not having norms of femininity imposed on them.
In addition, don't forget about the wind: The more wind there is, the better off you'll be because of the slower touchdown.
You're much better off to get the 1. 7gB mpeg-2 version because the resolution is actually better than the original soviet Baby Godzillas attacking Russian Spacemen!
However, by finally purging some of the annoyances and adding a few more powerful constructs to the language, we are probably better off than we were before.

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