Sentence examples for somewhat better off from inspiring English sources

Just because a population is somewhat better off, it does not automatically become more docile.

The musicians are somewhat better off, provided they steer clear of works by Hindemith, Stravinsky, & 12-toners.

The result is useful, a source of enormous profits, and the world is somewhat better off for it.

The speech endeavoured to pre-empt that development by arguing that, even if people do feel somewhat better off, the "deeper" structural unfairnesses of the economy mean that prosperity will not be as great as it could be and nor will its fruits be fairly shared.

In terms of what we have accomplished, we are somewhat better off," he said.

"If someone eats a lot of meat, they might still be worse off from [a meat tax], but if you've made most low-income people at least as well off, or maybe somewhat better off, I get the feeling that's a good policy," Baker said.

Indigent places are often racked by chaos; but somewhat better-off ones are not necessarily more stable.

Precision was somewhat better for homes off, rather than on, a water system (Table 3).

Although the average is the same, there is more uncertainty in the outcome in the second case, meaning that the trailing candidate has somewhat better odds of pulling off an upset.

The meetings and conventions business has fared somewhat better, with total events and spending off less than 2percentt.

Of those who came off welfare, two-thirds had a job when they left and 70% later agreed "somewhat" or "strongly" that they were "better off now than in a long time".That is not saying much.