Sentence examples for next best thing for from inspiring English sources

The next best thing for him would be to ensure that Serbia's new president is his man.

With Beckett not himself, the next best thing for the Red Sox could be to let Lester replace him.

Happy would the wise man be if he knew all things, and the next best thing for him is that he should know himself.

If the great director was here during the city's September film festival, he'd be moaning that he wasn't at the five-star Maria Cristina up the road, but this is the next best thing for cinephiles.

These neighborhoods are the next best thing for buyers looking for value.

That's likely to be the next best thing for class-action defendants and the worst thing for justice.

So he did what he considered the next best thing: pushed for a historic-review law that would "protect old houses from developers" or from owners who seek to "expand their house but not take into consideration its historical style".

If that is not possiible then surely the next best thing is for it dealt with at the European level.

It's not a port of Android for the N900 (those already exist!), but it's the next best thing: a wrapper for Android applications that allows them to run on Non-Android devices.

If Brown can't win his battle over taxes, this line of thinking goes, the next best thing would be for him to lose his battle over taxes.

Make no mistake, reading is the next best thing to drinking for the wine lover, and much more practical on subways, buses and trains.