Sentence examples similar to bettering the standard from inspiring English sources

Four Irish runners have bettered the standard in his event and Ciaran O'Lionaird has apparently indicated that he wants to run the 3000m in Gothenburg as opposed to the 1500m.

In July 2005, a year after von der Lippe first thought of competing in the 2008 trials, she bettered the qualifying standard in the 100 breast with a 1 12.49.

She achieved the 3,000m steeplechase mark last year and bettered the 10,000m standard in the US last month.

Women must "assume responsibilities in the affairs of the world," the call proclaimed, and through "joint action" better the "standard of life" for all.

The alternative is not much better — the standard adult dress shirt has so much excess fabric that, when a short man wears it tucked in, it creates the impression that he is wearing a diaper under his trousers.

In a zone of hard indeterminacy, it is false that the legal careers are better than the standard and false that the standard is better than the legal careers (1997, 73, 76).

There is an intermediate zone of legal careers that are not better than the standard and such that the standard is not better than the legal careers.

In a zone of soft indeterminacy, it is neither true nor false that the legal careers are better than the standard and neither true nor false that the standard is better than the legal careers (1997, 76).

But all were better than the standard knock-knock fare.

"What they are doing is so much better than the standard Scottish housing," he enthuses.

So the human eyeballs worked better than the standard statistical methods.