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I find myself, even as I am, better off than the Elephant.
he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from branch to branch, "they are much better off than I
I don't see that I should be any better off than I am now.
I shouldn't mind marrying, but I don't want to marry if I'm going to be no better off than what I am now.
The buyers and sellers, too, many of them, looked not much better off than the poor beasts they were bargaining about.
Bennet, shaking her head, "then she is better off than many girls.
You may be better off than we others," said Pierre.
After the fathers were out of debt, the daughters married the sons of neighbours--usually of like nationality-- and the girls who once worked in Black Hawk kitchens are to-day managing big farms and fine families of their own; their children are better off than the children of the town women they used to serve.
The pond lay still and motionless, glittering in the moonshine, and the hunter's wife was not a bit better off than she had been before.
While women expect to be PS150 a year better off than women who retired last year, men expect to be PS750 a year better off on average than men who retired in 2015.
adults say they are better off than eight years ago, sharply lower than the 73% who said the same in 2000.
Anne Ito dared saying the people of South Sudan are better off than three years ago.
Scotland's 'modest' 1% pay rise means its nurses are up to 700 [pounds sterling] a year better off than those in the other UK countries.
IN Ronald Reagan's words, "Are you better off than four years ago"?
A selection of your comments left on our website, Twitter and Facebook pages FAMILIES can count themselves better off than their parents' generation, according to new statistics, as "middle wealth" households now enjoy over PS10,000 more disposable income every year than they did in 1977.
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