21.   In other words we would have been better off cashing the precept and keeping the money under the mattress.

22.   Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary, but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule.

23.   Some people in the Labour Party seem to believe that Labour will be better off without the unions.

24.   Towns were generally better off than villages, but within the same county variations even between towns could be marked.

25.   Some editors believed they would be better off if they refused to take advantage of the new rules and continued to let the censor see their material in manuscript.

26.   But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all.

27.   The tenant will always be better off without such a review, and consequently should resist its introduction.

28.   Accordingly, it is suggested that the tenant will be better off if the rent is to be determined by arbitration rather than by expert.

29.   Those who throw sticks and stones which break bones can be better off in law than those who project hurtful words which leave no permanent mark.

30.   You know that Kirsty would be better off with me.