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Speaking of which – it certainly beats its BBC3 stablemate Gavin and Stacey, albeit in a lo-fi kind of way.

It certainly beats any history lesson.

It certainly beats almost every alternative.

And it certainly beats the alternative.

"It certainly beats using the road.

It certainly beats digging a ditch.

It certainly beat the scene down the hall, where a season's hopes were packed in brown boxes and sealed shut with tape.

It certainly beat sitting around and thinking about the Knicks and how they're trying to kill the N.B.A., a situation so grim that Donnie Walsh, the team president, was moved to blame himself for everything, which is sort of like General Motors trying to take the fall for global warming.

Life for many imperialists may have been short, but it certainly beat hanging around useless and unemployed in urban ghettos.

It most certainly beats the crap out of this (OptoFidelity 1 – Stanford University 0).

As spectator sports go, it would certainly beat the World Cup.