Sentence examples for only somewhat better from inspiring English sources

The B.C.D.C. is only somewhat better for the guards than for the inmates.

The Colts are only somewhat better defending against kickoff returns; they rank 25th in the league, yielding 24.3 yards a return.

In the spring of 1999, the class of 2001 sat for the exams as a pilot, and the results on the math exam were disastrous (12percentt passed), with the writing only somewhat better (28percentt passed).

Yet when placement tests showed that his English reading skills were still weak and his writing only somewhat better, it was not clear whether the college would offer him classes in English as a second language.

Defending such places would be hard even if the economy were bubbling and Mr Obama's approval rating were not a sickly 43%—only somewhat better than George W. Bush's in 2006.Four Democrats are fighting for their seats in states that Mr Obama lost in 2012: Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina.

As it shows, although carbon growth was lower than economic growth in 2012 – which is unquestionably great news – the ratio looks only somewhat better than previous years, and is by no means unusual compared to economically similar years in the 1990s.

The fact that majors are signing on the dotted line indicates that they have not only received a somewhat better royalty rate but big upfront payments (advances and so-called access or, in YouTube lingo, technical fees).

Only France and Spain performed somewhat better.

When it wears off, you will feel somewhat better, but only because you can move your limbs again.

A subsequent analysis of the same data concluded that the correlation was somewhat better, but only if the focus was restricted to the set of genes that is inducible in both species [ 48].

The material contained one femoral stem fracture only, which could be somewhat better visualized with tomosynthesis.