"a bit better off" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used to describe an improvement in a situation, typically when comparing the current situation to a previous one. For example, "We're a bit better off now that we've saved up some money."
Provided, that is, they are still in work and feel just a bit better off on 7 May 2015.
"That will make the middle class in Mexico perhaps a bit better off; therefore, they spend less money on basic services," he said.
Those with migrant-worker parents, who are a bit better off, may have a chunk of pork; others bring a meagre potato or vegetable.
BP would be (a bit) better off had it had more American directors to throw at America's media wolves.But diversity's proponents need to grapple with the Liverpool effect.
"The main stadium is a bit better off because it's used by football teams but, if you look around, everything is rotting and rusting.
That the growing chasm between the super-rich and the rest doesn't matter that much, so long as everybody else (except the minority of the poor) is getting a bit better off?
But being able to feel a bit better-off than someone else makes it a bit more bearable.Sources "Group Loyalty and the taste for Redistribution", by Erzo F.P. LuttmerLast Place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications", by Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan Buell, Taly Reich and Michael I. Norton.
Here is what George Osborne said when he was interviewed on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday morning: "The typical family with someone working full-time on the minimum wage will be better off, not just a little bit better off but £2,000 a year better off, if you include the lower taxes we are providing through the personal allowance; the childcare for three and four-year-olds.
I think the whole thing works a bit better now, showing off each track to its best.
More than two thirds (69%) of leavers, by contrast, thought the decision 'might make us a bit better or worse off as a country, but there probably isn't much in it either way'".
Using super stealth stalking powers, I managed to track Jesse down through her Tumblr so I could get to know her a bit better before she took off for a three week tour with Waxahatchee.
