The phrase "a better element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing elements or components, suggesting that one is superior to another in some way.
Example: "In our analysis, we found that a better element in the design significantly improved the overall performance."
Alternatives: "an improved component" or "a superior factor".
The days when "jacket required" was enough to ensure a better element of patron began dying after World War II, said Anne Hollander, a fashion historian and author of "Seeing Through Clothes".
There is no explicit reason given for moving the earth; Aristotle reports that some others (Platonists?; see Kingsley 1995, 175 80) thought it should be moved because fire was thought to be a "better" element than earth and hence to belong at the center of the cosmos, which is a position of honor (Arist., De Caelo 293b2).
The better element took a printing press away from Davis lately.
Thus it can be served as a better sensing element.
AstraZeneca has added 45p to £46.55 on talk predator Pfizer could increase its mooted offer with a better cash element.
This study aims to develop a better finite element (FE) model by using the static and dynamic analyses in the ANSYS computer program.
For example, the incorporation of scattering within an optical system can actually improve system performance – a cloudy piece of plastic can actually be a better optical element than a well made lens!
It was not until De Gendt's team-mate Gustav Larsson – the Swedish national champion in the discipline – that his time was beaten; Larsson, although six seconds slower than De Gendt to the intermediate checkpoint, put in a better second element to the race, eventually crossing the finish line in an eventual stage-winning time of 19' 19".
As materials become scarcer and the impact of their use becomes more obvious, designers can no longer be content with making a product that has better elements or is "less bad" than its competitors in terms of its sustainable credentials.
Unlike his more purist namesake in Clerkenwell, Takahashi is happy to fish from his Nobu roots, retaining the better elements – a version of that famous black cod; South American touches with ceviches and salsas – while ditching the less attractive (basically everything about Nobu other than the food).
Few shows do mystery well, and it's easy to see how a Myst show could possibly share some of the better elements of a mystery-based show like Lost, full of hatches and keys and stories to be uncovered.
