Sentence examples for better though still from inspiring English sources

Thirty-five years later it is somewhat better, though still far from perfect.

Current jobs here are more sacred than profit, or more and better (though still hypothetical) jobs in the future.There was more.

On the second day back to work after Tropical Storm Irene, things are looking better, though still problematic, for people heading in from the suburbs and beyond.

Lawrence adduced reasons for the surge besides the rankling oppressions of Jim Crow: an acute industrial labor shortage in the North; the devastation of Southern agriculture by floods and the boll weevil; and urgings in the black press, which broadcast prospects of better (though still meagre) living conditions and educational opportunities, and the freedom to vote.

It would be better – though still not ideal – to say the embryo goes through stages of being a quarter human, half human, three quarters human… The essentialist mind will recoil from such language and accuse me of all manner of horrors for denying the essence of humanness.

This quarter will be better, though still declining," Bartels says.

Thanks to computer models, the odds on a freakish storm or earthquake are better known, epidemiologists are more successful at tracking diseases, and even man-made crises such as banking debacles and stockmarket crashes can be catalogued and studied to produce better (though, as we shall see, still far from perfect) forecasts.

(The original, starring Michael Caine, was better though it still missed the essence of the book, in my opinion).

After receiving antibiotics, they are all doing better, though they still have symptoms; Austin has gastrointestinal problems, and Myles has chronic fatigue.

Mr. Cassell, the juror who said recovery was a work in progress, said every week seemed a little better, though he still found himself distracted with painful memories from the trial at moments that ought to be joyful.

Ms. Miles, who took over from Ms. Guy barely two weeks ago as the regal singer, comes off better, though she still (quite understandably) exudes a tentativeness at odds with her character's self-willed imperiousness.