The slightly better outcome in 2004 was the result of new obligations being somewhat lower than expected and payments to Member States slightly higher.

Obama is only slightly better.

Instead they respond with models slightly smaller or bigger than the other in order to plug any holes in demand and achieve a better edge.

The case of France is interesting, because the country has fared slightly better than most in confronting the downturn, thanks to its well functioning welfare state.

The US has done slightly worse than suggested by this rough measure Japan has done a bit better and most other rich countries come pretty close.

It is slightly larger than Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, approximately the size of the country of Germany, and just slightly smaller than Montana.

A recent study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences concluded that China's urban rural income gap is the worst on earth, maybe only slightly better than Zimbabwe.

Women have a slightly higher unemployment rate (7.4 ) than men.

As such, the Spanish dollar was worth slightly more than the U.S. dollar, and likewise, the Newfoundland dollar, until 1895, was worth slightly more than the Canadian colonial dollar.

A blonde guy, slightly shorter than me, 184 cm approximately, enters.

The region is slightly larger than England, with an area of .

But the Netherlands, and Austria and, to a lesser extent, Germany and France are faring slightly better.

The verdict given was between three and six months, slightly lighter than sought.

Thus, steel products as a group were less dynamic than world exports but slightly more dynamic than commodities.

Paper shufflers are doing better than producers speculators are doing better than managers traders are doing better than entrepreneurs arbitrageurs are doing better than accumulators the clever are doing better than the solid and behind all of it, the financial market is more powerful than the state.

The labour force consists of more than four million people, among whom women hold slightly more jobs than men.

But the growth has been from almost nothing to slightly more than almost nothing.

Rates of migraines are slightly lower in Asia and Africa than in Western countries.

However, it contains slightly more iron, zinc, riboflavin, and phosphorus than normal vegetable soup.

In 2002, the actual number of cases was reduced to slightly more than 17,000.

Better than Basel

The unemployment rate in Jerusalem (8.3 ) is slightly better than the national average (9.0 ), although the civilian labor force accounted for less than half of all persons fifteen years or older lower in comparison to that of Tel Aviv (58.0 ) and Haifa (52.4 ).

Though it has a far smaller population, it is slightly larger than the North Island.

This was a slightly lower increase than the 4.3 per cent between 1984 and 1992.

This is one in my neighborhood. And they are much better better than traffic lights, better than four way stop signs.

Better safe than sorry.

Better safe than sorry.

I'm better than you.

You're better than me.

Better Red than Dead?

Better late than never.

It's better than a new monitor. It's better than new software, or whatever people typically use.

The climate is tropical monsoonal, slightly less humid than the average in this part of Indonesia.

Dutch cocoa is slightly milder in taste, with a deeper and warmer colour than natural cocoa.

Women accounted for a slightly higher percentage of the rural population than of the urban population.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

As a result, those who are creative and competent enough to write that slightly better search engine will capture the global market.

The one area where Europe is posting better results is public finances. In 2012, the aggregate fiscal deficit in the eurozone is expected to be slightly above 3 of GDP, compared to more than 8 in the US.

It's better than a computer.

She sang better than he.

You are better than me.

She sang better than him.

Tom is better than us.

Sami is better than Farid.

Prevention is better than repression.