How To Use Improved In A Sentence

His posture improved so much that his clothes no longer fit.
Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.
Conditions have improved considerably over the past few years.
The committee have passed a resolution that conditions ( should ) be improved.
Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition

Improved rail transport is essential for business.
Advances in technology have improved crop yields by over 30%.
We did it because we believed we improved our hockey club.
By mid 1843 matters had improved and many of the settlers had cattle, sown a crop and found time, money and labour to build substantial houses.
The Dominican Republic's mountainous interior and long stretches of unimproved roads make for perfect fat-tire odysseys.
On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved.
The related statute and system about the social supervision should be emended and improved and the supervision to the audit operation quality should be enhanced in many ways.
He wasn't so sure that the welding of artist and model improved the art, that her sudden fetish for Captain Hunt's bete-noir would inspire the strumming fingers of her daemon.
In the range of same frequency, compared with silicon-steel sheet components, the bulk amorphous metal magnetic component of the invention has greatly improved performance characteristic.
Its net income, however, improved drastically, from a loss of $11 million in 2002 to a net gain of $5.2 in 2003.
Our woodcut is taken from the improved model produced by Mr. Stokey; no doubt Mr. Rarey took the idea of his gag-bit from the wooden gag, which has been in use among country farriers from time immemorial, to keep a horse's mouth while they are performing the cruel and useless operation of firing for lampas. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
Time On has improved immeasurably over the winter, which she entered with one placed effort from three outings. Times, Sunday Times
Improved protective designs for field fortifications and base camps have been developed for field forces.
The strength of the US dollar significantly improved the competitiveness of EU exporters.
Version 3.0 and the further improved 3.1 version of Microsoft Windows have changed the face of modern Personal Computing.
Universal are just churning our 'remasters' this year and I've yet to hear an album that's been improved by it. The Line Of Best Fit
The oldest improved zoysia, ‘Emerald’, is still available and still good.
All I can ask is, what has happened to all that money and what has actually improved?
The improved economic conditions will encourage lending by financial institutions.
Therefore, George advocated allowing landowners to keep a small percentage of the land rent, mainly to avoid the prospect of having all unimproved land revert to the commons.
Contrary to such forecasts, nearly all the indices of human progress have improved since the dawn of the industrial age.
This posting is about intercommunication among Zapoteco villagers in Oaxaca State and the notion that communications among various villages can be improved by foreigners introducing radio signal interrelationships to, supposedly, improve inter-village understanding and, perhaps, harmony. Radio stations in Oaxaca
The swing system, controlled by joypad thumbstick, works better than before, and many online features have been improved. Times, Sunday Times
It will call for improved career structures to be put in place to attract doctors to rural practices and for them to be given support to keep them in their jobs.
The look of the dish is improved with a swirl of cream. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to expediting the compounding process and enhancing patient safety, RIVA has notably improved work and safety conditions for hospital staff, reducing their exposure to a multitude of drug compounds - namely cytotoxic drugs. THE MEDICAL NEWS
Urban arterial road is the main undertaker for the urban transportation. The transportation capacity can be improved by combining and controlling many intersections in one trunk road.
Overlinking is often due to writers who believe that the text is improved by any addition of links, and who seem to have a "regularization" obsession - that all words which are the same, should appear the same. Archive 2007-01-01
The precision in diagnosis is greatly improved, and entirely new possibilities for therapy have been opened up via the hybridoma technique. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984 - Presentation Speech
With an improved public expenditure allocation for April 1992, the future is looking considerably better.
When the cast electrodes of air-melted steel are remelted under vacuum and deoxidized with carbon, the product has significantly improved purity.
About 82 partnership aims have been improved on, and another 34 are in the process of completion.
Administration of surfactant in neonates with infant respiratory distress syndrome has led to improved survival rates.
The existing Anchorage network has been merged with the new ANSS stations to provide improved coverage of the Anchorage region.
The club have aged and declined as their continental rivals have renewed and improved. Times, Sunday Times
Relatively new on the scene, laser rangefinders have improved dramatically in the few short years since they came on the market.
By 1905, of course, astronomical observations had greatly improved due to photography.
In 1996, the NVIC realized a major goal when the FDA licensed an improved pertussis vaccine known as the acellular pertussis vaccine.
Sales improved after an unpromising start .
If they allowed dope to be used, I could grow her stuff, she could smoke it, and her life would be improved.
Improved quality of care may account for the decrease in mortality, through new technologies or improved perioperative and post-operative care, or both.
But really, taking the ups with the downs, life in Ireland has improved considerably since the 1950s.
Their body fat dropped and muscle strength improved. Times, Sunday Times
Scholars assert that hanging the wine bottle in smoke matured wine faster and improved its taste.
Method Improved periodogram (Welch procedure), AR model and Wavelet transform techniques were used to detect the Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions signal.
The committee has recommended that the training program ( should ) be improved.
IBM's early efforts in "smart" infrastructure technology around the world have already decongested Stockholm, improved water management in Brazil and started work on an automated power grid in Malta. Undefined
Clinicians sought improved usability and flexibility, whereas national headquarters prioritised business and executive functions such as accurate coding and reimbursement.
Improved revenue collection will help finance better conservation measures.
Yet, it was clearly established that even a modest weight reduction and improved weight control could bring health benefits, and relieve the burden on hard-pressed health systems.
We can do this with more competitive corporate tax rates, more sensible regulation, improved K-12 education, and better job training for skills that the market demands such as the computer literacy necessary even to operate today's machinery. Washington's Knack for Picking Losers
The situation has improved very little .
It was claimed that this gives an improved warmth to weight ratio of around 25 percent and decreased bulk.
Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned, and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony.
Britain's balance of payments improved modestly last month.
The '03 debut of Mazda's RX - 8 4-seat sportster marked the rotary's return in much-improved form after an 8-year hiatus.
Development of improved models to predict field-scale dispersion is a continuing area of research.
Oh, yes, Speaker Pelosi, it was more important to foreshorten debate so that the "troops" could go home on recess than to more fully consider, and possibly fashion, an improved piece of legislation. When Partisanship Trumps We, the People
The improved design of FIFO in respect of Multi - Asynchronous Clock Designs acquires perfect working performance.
The club have aged and declined as their continental rivals have renewed and improved. Times, Sunday Times
Other individual birth defects - such as eye or heart defects - sometimes can be corrected or at least improved with early surgery.
This brings a birthday message especially to say how much I love you and you are as young and charming in my calendar as before,and the extra year seems indeed to have improved your looks and grace.
Pioneering surgery involving transfers of multiple tendons together with the implantation of up to eight electrodes in the muscles of the forearm and hand has improved the quality of life of many patients with tetraplegia.
Last year the day was labelled a misnomer, with the majority of motorists ignoring it, although some said they would be willing to try public transport if the system were improved. ANC Daily News Briefing
In recent years, the pedestrian accident rate for children has improved relative to that for adults.
But his voice improved to become this amazing instrument. The Sun
Nor is the case improved one whit even if one were to call the clement he has isolated not an individual substance but a quality: for there will still be the one beside the many, just as On Sophistical Refutations
Amtrak has sold its mail cars and is getting improved dispatching from the Union Pacific Railroad.
He has improved much in health.
Whether the British product recall system can be improved is another issue. Times, Sunday Times
This is bolstered with improved animation, so diving catches and slides into bases, for example, are extremely slick.
His health has not been improved by all the upset at home.
If you can't deliver improved sales figures, you're fired.
In France, the Elysee Palace is still reeling after a "bossnapping" - manufacturer 3M improved the severance packages for more than 110 workers in exchange for the liberty of manager, Luc Rousselet, who spent more than 24 hours as prisoner of his own furious employees. Undefined
An annual windfall of up to £83m could be ring-fenced to create an improved business environment, through better roads, streetscapes, traffic control, and offering a better service for tourists.
Improved building codes requiring smoke detectors and water sprinklers, self-extinguishing cigarettes, and overall decreased rates of smoking have probably had a much bigger impact on the number of fires and fire deaths than the flammability standard. Sarah Janssen: California's Flammability Standard Puts Children at Risk
The sensitivity improved more than 100 - fold . The extraction procedure included conditioning , loading, washing, eluting and regenerating.
The research is designed to contribute to an improved foundation for teacher training and teacher appraisal.
Improved water testing capacity has been introduced to check for cholera and other waterborne diseases.
Conditions on Australia's east coast were vastly improved yesterday from the blinding rain that greeted the 57 starters a day earlier.
The engine has been greatly improved in later models.
In order to relieve complexity and time-consuming for vector edge update of objects in GIS, A new vector edge update method based on improved active contour model is proposed.
The high-quality research we carried out could not have been conducted without cages, which were continually improved and modified. Times, Sunday Times
It is also proof that complementary deals are safer than far-reaching ones as companies seek to grow in these improved economic conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Detail, focus, dimensionality, transparency, dynamic expression and subtlety all improved significantly.
In developed countries over the past 30 years, better perinatal care has considerably improved these outcomes.
We must dig over the vegetable garden to grow this new improved strain of vegetable.
An improved weighted noise power estimation algorithm is proposed in the paper by taking into account the correlation of inter-frequency in the noisy speech.
His English improved enormously because of his association with British people.
The said experiments show that with the roll-die drawing process the drawing force can be considerably reduced and surface quality of the shape steel tube improved.
Meanwhile , the automatization and efficiency the implant test is improved by ESIT.
Sales improved after an unpromising start .
Cooperation between all concerned with patient care will be improved when the function of each role is discussed and understood.
The nutritional value of school meals would be improved.
The oral ingestion of the same decoction may have improved cold tolerance due to its thermogenic effect.
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Where the guillotine improved on the Halifax design was the inbuilt facility to position the victim accurately and quickly in the machine.
Objective Standard large trauma craniectomy was improved to elevate the curative effect of the severe traumatic brain injured patients.
The London market finished the week on a bullish note yesterday, with shares surging ahead as investor confidence improved.
Tests could certainly be improved to more frequently and less obtrusively measure progress (i.e., online adaptive assessment). Leave Bad Schools Behind
Which has been improved by some, on this side the water, into an excuse for getting drunk every day in the week, for fear that the _specific day_ should be missed. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829
He improved, but in 1996 he was readmitted to hospital with paraesthesia and leg spasms and was prescribed carbamazepine by a neurologist.
The wound of the wounded soldier was disimproved for lack of medicine.
By 1860 imported boars and improved husbandry yielded a hog notably superior to that of the 1820s and '30s.
The poor outlook and rumours of price cuts to drive sales of its smartphones overshadowed an improved financial performance after savage cost-cutting over the past year. Times, Sunday Times
Could have grabbed a winner and had chances when the service from midfield improved. The Sun
Mayo County Council improved the footpaths, kerbing and road system in the village in 1988.
Businesses have improved cash flow and need to upgrade capital stocks. Times, Sunday Times
They have improved immeasurably since their arrival.
The weather improved toward evening
It has been much improved over the previous version and humanized, to boot.
The spread of radio sets made tactical separation easier and improved the control of artillery and mortar fire.
The fidelity of sound equipment subsequently improved considerably, but the receivers did not.
Version 8. 0 also comes with an improved installation routine that is faster and better able to anticipate conflicts.
Compared with the single electrochemical oxidation, the removal rate to phenol, phthalic acid and phenylformic acid within the same time is improved by 79 to 96 percent.
The company's wind tunnel improved its aerodynamics. Times, Sunday Times
He was young enough, and the towns were dirty enough, unimproved, unrestored, untouristed, to retain the sense of reality. Berlin (1858–1859)
Though mine safety has much improved, miners' families still fear the worst.
It is frequently a result of some transient mechanical imbalance and, therefore, can be improved with bodywork and manual manipulation techniques.
Improved car security and more home burglar alarms and window locks have driven down vehicle crime and burglary. Times, Sunday Times
We have shown that cardiac and myocyte specialization of the Pacific bluefin tuna improved cardiac function in cooler waters relative to other tuna species.
Improved consumer confidence is crucial to an economic recovery.
In effect, growth is contingent on improved incomes for the mass of the low-income population.
His improved performance does credit to his trainer.
They retrofitted the plane with improved seating.
We improved our policy to stimulate and expand employment by encouraging business startups, and enforced the minimum wage system.
This dependence on imports has prodded the nation into tremendous achievements in improved efficiency.
Why should the House pass the bill with vague hopes of it being improved later, if this obvious avenue is available? Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Herding Cats
The scrutiny committee produced a report in February which condemned litterbugs and said that cleaning could be improved in residential areas outside the city centre.
The aim of this work was to assess the fertility and breeding potential of the triploid and aneuploid hybrids with a view to developing an improved vine cactus crop.
What Aristotle had written in ancient Greece, classifying the minerals known then, remained unchallenged and unimproved into the nineteenth century.
Your skin is getting warmer and your sense of taste and smell have improved. The Sun
Half of the efficiency savings made by government had to be 'cashable' (i.e. demonstrably saved money that could be spent elsewhere) and half could be 'non-cashable' (i.e. getting greater outputs or improved quality for the same inputs). BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
The new and improved line of attack is to dichotomize war opponents by, first, issuing the most back-handed of compliments to those who were anti-war all along – the unthreatening, marginalized “Michael Moore crowd.” Archive 2005-11-01
In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson. On Dictionaries
Postcomm has in the past had a fraught relationship with Royal Mail, although Mr. Hooper says that it has improved over the past year. Cable Posts a Capital Proposition
Their body fat dropped and muscle strength improved. Times, Sunday Times
However, the therapist did not think that the situation had improved and therefore offered further open access.
Ultimately there will be improved professional opportunities for Alice Springs based staff, with a few heads of schools based here.
He has improved much in health.
Constipation and self-abuse decreased while mood improved.
An improved cathode-ray tube includes an envelope comprising a faceplate panel, a funnel and a neck.
The introduction of checks was a major innovation that improved the efficiency of the payments system. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
But this is not a conventional war and improved security will not be decisive. Times, Sunday Times
A research fellow at the University of Sheffield, Dr Helen Clayson, hopes to find out more about the disease and how it affects people so that care can be improved.
They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
They have equated convenience with "improved portability" with a tube-like package that enables the yogurt to be eaten without a spoon.
Quality related PP&E is associated with upgrades to the network to enable higher throughput speeds in addition to improved network access associated activities such as site build programs, and network sectorization work. Rogers Reports Third Quarter 2010 Financial and Operating Results - Yahoo! Finance
Bergius used high-pressure methods to prepare oil by the hydrogenation of coal, and Bosch, like Bergius working at the large concern I.G. Farben, later improved the procedure by finding a good catalyst for the Bergius process. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
Her health has improved in leaps and bounds.
In 1829, Nobili invented the thermopile, and it was improved in 1852 by Melloni.
Expansionary fiscal policies and a powerful inventory cycle, helped by a recovery in international trade and improved financial conditions, fueled a significant pickup in growth.
Sadly, over one year after the lights were restored the traffic situation has not improved.
After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant.
Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
Buildings have been restored, the local infrastructure improved, and special art and history exhibitions organized.
Eventually, they recruited more staff to chase up debts and things improved.
Unfortunately, the kids 'space could have been much improved if the building design hadn't been negatively impacted by foolish conceits about historic design which determined the fenestration of the basement wall on the south side. Georgetown Library to reopen
Can such mutants be identified in the genetic screens presently in use, or is there a need for improved or even novel screens?
Whereas previously it was rather unpalatable on its own, it has improved greatly in flavour and is now versatile enough to be used in cooking.
Winner of impressive awards, their main mission is to constantly conduct research in order to come up with new and improved “intelligent solutions”. Awesome Sculptural Home in Somosaguas : Spain
Manager Ken Knott is optimistic of an improved performance tonight.
Quinn had the old version of an improved face, pulled tight so the skin was very, very thin, while the new face was on display in the tent, with the young people, who, before the downturn laid down cash for fillers, botox and dermabrasion. Three Stages of Amazement
Despite this, he went on to achieve a personal best in the shot and improved on his personal best in the high jump, achieving 1.55 metres.
The improved flows of information and knowledge make it easier to establish and control overseas operations. Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice
However, when a four-strong team revisited the hospital on Monday, they found the situation greatly improved.
Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
The taco was a little tough and gristly, but everything was improved by the addition of a generous spoonful of tangy, thin red sauce and a chunkier salsa verde, both served icy-cold. Last Night « PubliCola
Moreover, his apparently effortless singing had improved. Times, Sunday Times
What is needed is for all schools to be adequately resourced and financed so as to make it possible for education standards to be improved overall.
An improved climate: ‘Every year, environmental alarmists claim we have taken another step on the road to ruin.’
Yet, Oblate status within the Baltimore religious community improved significantly with the succession of Francis Patrick Kenrick to the archiepiscopacy of Baltimore in 1851.
The experiments show that with the new programming strategy the reject rate is reduced from 20% to 5% and the weld quality is remarkably improved.
Kentucky improved to 31-6 in domed stadiums since 1995. NCAA Division I Mens Basketball - Wisconsin vs. Kentucky
The fare has much improved since Hugh has taken charge of the kitchen.
We built roads and roundabouts differently and improved street lighting. Times, Sunday Times
The introduction of new working practices has dramatically improved productivity.
If they could be improved, and the stylistic infelicities, misprints and translation inaccuracies removed, a second edition would pass muster as a useful introductory text.
The equipment and methods of production have improved out of all recognition .
Research suggests that counterfactual comparisons help people draw preparative lessons for improved future performance.
Drink it regularly and the improved muscle cell regeneration will help the body to process fats and calories more effectively. Times, Sunday Times
The economy had improved, and so the king was able to earn extra money from customs. The English Civil War: A People's History
The downbeat assessment contrasts with consumers' positive views about their prospective own situations, which improved by two points compared with a year ago. Times, Sunday Times
Accordingly, the present invention relates to an improved radiometric assay of dialysates obtained from equilibrium dialysis.
She's improved her sprint speed but overall it's her tenacity that defines her. Times, Sunday Times
As electric stimulation continued for weeks or months, microcirculation improved, which may have resulted in improved outcomes.
Gradually the situation of the farmers improved through better farming techniques, especially the growing of clover and the use of superphosphate brought in from the island of Nauru.
In the past, it has always seemed crude and incomprehensible and horribly unfunny, but one or other of us must have improved. Times, Sunday Times
Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The acidimeter referred to was afterwards improved, by making the tube longer and more narrow, and dividing it into tenths of per cents, instead of fourths; thus dividing the whole above 0 into thousandths. The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
Consider a blooming bonsai, bougainvillea, daylily, or gardenia, or a citrus tree such as ‘Clementine’ tangerine, ‘Improved Meyer’ lemon, or kumquat.
The performance improved as their confidence grew.
Rowing was his sport and at secondary school he worked with a coach who improved his technique and taught him about life. Times, Sunday Times
The modular pads of the suspension system offer improved stability and physical comfort.
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