Sentence examples for a second better from inspiring English sources

Phelps finished in 1 minute 42.96 seconds, nine-tenths a second better than his previous best.

Jones set the championships record in 7.72 seconds, 0.03 of a second better than Perdita Felicien of Canada in 2004.

Shiffrin's winning time, 1 minute 39.85 seconds, was 0.22 of a second better than that of the second-place finisher, Michaela Kirchgasser of Austria.

That's nearly a full second quicker than the previous-generation car and a tenth of a second better than the Altima V-6.

Miller's combined total of 2 minutes 35.96 seconds was 0.37 of a second better than Carlo Janka, the breakout Swiss star this winter.

It was the fastest time in the world this year, the eighth-quickest in history, and more than half a second better than anyone else.

Running on gasoline, the car's mileage is about a third better.

Shareholders appear to have baked in a better relative performance at Jefferies: the stock trades at about 1.7 times book value, double Morgan Stanley's multiple and a third better than Goldman's.

After some time training on the Kalq, test subjects hit a rate of 37 words per minute, with a five per cent error rate — a third better than the average performance on a touchscreen Qwerty keyboard.

What's more, manufacturing jobs pay a third better on average than service jobs.

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