Sentence examples for slightly better off from inspiring English sources

When growth makes them even slightly better off, it hauls them over the line.

Those who had left welfare a year earlier were slightly better off: 45 percent lived in poverty.

You could pass them all and the country might be slightly better off or slightly worse off, but it wouldn't be on a different trajectory.

Ken Meeson, cabinet member for children's services at Solihull council, says: "Most carers were not affected or were slightly better off under the revised scheme.

Zambia and Zimbabwe are in dire trouble, too, and Mozambique and Swaziland, while slightly better off at the moment, will be hard pressed to avoid similar shortages.

India's soccer team was slightly better off in the 1950's than it is now -- it came in fourth in soccer in the 1956 Olympics.

It is offering cheap loans to help the slightly better-off build their own homes.

These countries hope aid can play a catalytic role so CDC's decision to exclude investment from slightly better-off countries, such as those in Latin America, is probably wrong.

And by emphasising its cheapness rather than its basic but appealing qualities, it deterred slightly better-off consumers who could afford one but aspired to more sophisticated vehicles, such as those from Tata's biggest rival, Maruti, the leader in India's small-car market.Despite pending retirement, Mr Tata has once again taken a personal interest in the fate of his troubled pet project.

So if the case for independence doesn't rest with the big old ideas – anti-colonialism, freedom struggles, the liberation of a repressed identity – does it lie simply with more effective governance, and in the possibility of being slightly better-off (£250 per head was one SNP projection) after the divorce?

The government's free schools programme has proved to be popular with non-white families, according to the first academic analysis of the policy, which also found free schools attracted brighter and slightly better-off primary-aged pupils compared with the national average.