1.   The pain gradually got better as the night wore on.

2.   He expects the system to get even better as the engineers tweak its performance.

3.   Oxford got better as the game went on.

4.   Is it not better off as a hidden surprise to be discovered by the interested tourist?

5.   And best of all, no food is better as a leftover.

6.   And he will get better as a hitter with time.

7.   And Nancy Marchand could not be better as the Larrabee matriarch, a tough old patrician with wits both cutting and warm.

8.   And Wade Dominguez is better still as a charismatic tough-guy who just misses his chance for salvation through education.

9.   And why imagine, during the postwar boom in white-collar employment, that Willy would be better off as a blue-collar worker building concrete stoops?

10.   And Wilson said he would leave up to voters in the city whether the San Fernando Valley would be better off as a separate city.