Sentence examples for held better from inspiring English sources

OTC market prices have held better in recent months, averaging $3.41 as late as October last year.

Autumn's unquestionable success, it's a shame The Martian hasn't held better in China – it dropped nearly 60% to $13.7m to take its total there to $73.6m.

Spectre held better than Skyfall (-50%) in the States, and if it can replicate that sort of form in the coming weeks, it may have a shot at $1bn.

It is doing well next to the October-timed speciality releases Fox has been using as a yardstick: Captain Phillips (-36.2%) and The Departed (-29.2%) saw similar second-weekend audience loyalty, while Gravity (-22.6%) and Argo (-15.5%, albeit on a much smaller opening) held better.

Reforms to data collection were announced last year after James Comey, the FBI director, said it was "unacceptable" that The Counted and a similar project by the Washington Post held better data on the issue than his own officials, a situation he said was "embarrassing and ridiculous".

The FBI director, James Comey, said in October it was "embarrassing and ridiculous" that the government did not hold comprehensive statistics, and that it was "unacceptable" the Guardian and the Washington Post, which began publishing a database of fatal police shootings on 1 July, held better records.

We tried wool first, but acrylic holds better".

The SCPP with higher generation capacity holds better cost-benefit characteristics.

If your spacers are 1/8-inch or bigger, buy "sanded" grout, which holds better in wider gaps.

With six Western Conference foes holding better points rates, FCD will have to outplay two other teams to make the postseason.

Analysis in theory and simulations show that Tide can provide effective routing, and holds better capabilities of topology match and load balance than existed hierarchical P2P models.