Sentence examples similar to ranking a bit from inspiring English sources

In the J. D. Power & Associates 2011 ranking of full-service brokerage firms, Ameriprise ranked a bit above average.

Across the OECD, Australia ranks a bit below average on inequality – doing better than our English speaking peers in US, UK and Canada, but lagging well behind most European nations.

For comparison sake, California has three in the top 10 as well (albeit ranked a bit higher, with No.1 Stanford, No. 3 Berkeley and No. 4 Caltech) and New York has one (No. 9 Cornell [tie]).

The Indian-born exec ranked a bit higher on the Forbes list of the most powerful women in the world, at No. 5. Impressive as that sounds, Nooyi's total compensation was just one-fourteenth that of the highest-paid man on the list, Oracle's Larry Ellison, who took home a modest $1 million in salary but realized $182 million from the exercise of vested stock options last year.

Chicago's other neighbors ranked a bit worse: St .Paul, Minn .was ranked as number 51, Kansas City, Mo .was ranked at number 68, St .Louis, Mo .was number 59 and Indianapolis, Ind .was number 77.

If he can get his ranking a little bit higher he'll get into the main tour events more regularly, there'll be more points on offer.

"I'd like to improve my professional ranking a little bit," said Capra, who emerged from a wild-card playoff last month in Florida to secure her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event, then became the youngest woman to advance to the Open's third round.

"I'd love to continue playing in stadiums like that [in New York] with a crowd like that but I have to get my ranking up a bit more.

They now rank 18th – a bit closer to being able to compensate for their defensive faults, and a bit closer toward truly treading water without Steph Curry.

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I was older than her and I'd sort of risen up the ranks a bit by then and she was working on the floor.