a sight better informal
a damn sight better informal
a darned sight better informal
a darn sight better informal

I think the town is a sight better off without him.

Boy, were they a sight better in the old days, she says.

You're saying that a sight better than you could this time last week.

So that's a hell of a sight better than having our streets running blood.

"You'd be a sight better off with the rest," I said.

A sight better than you could a week ago.

I know what it'll be a sight better than you do, laddie.

Trying to fix the leg was a sight better than cutting it off.

But a world that had a collective plan and knew where it meant to be going would do a sight better, anyhow.

Sunday knew cows, all right, but he was a sight better educated than the rest of us, although not one for showing it.

"A live one," he retorted, "which is a sight better than the other kind."

I also talk a sight better sitting down.

"They'll like the news a sight better if we sink some Yankee ironclads first," he said.

"They fit her a sight better than that sprayed-on denim she was wearing."

"You look a sight better than you did then.

"Still, I guess it's a sight better to be pegged a drunk than a rapist."

They're a loan, and they'll look a sight better on you than they ever did on me, that I must say."

I feel a sight better just hearin' tell about it."

Hardly an armoury, but a sight better than nothing.'

They aren't good eating but they are a sight better than no eating at all.

They taste a sight better that way than what we were doing with 'em be- fore, I tell you for a fact."

Jake's a good hand to settle in with, I admit--a sight better than me.

Granny thought she looked a sight better."

'Well I know where we'll get a drink - and enjoy a sight better company than we'd have got back there.'

Looked a sight better than this dump.'

We'd have been a damned sight better off if I could.

It's a damn sight better than it was when I came here.

I can shoot a damn sight better than you, boy.

Still, it's a damn sight better living above ground than below.

Sure as hell a damn sight better woman than her mom.

My chef's a damned sight better than anything you'll find on land.

It was a damn sight better than hanging around his place, he decided.

It were a damn sight better bloody thing than that.

Perhaps it was the beer, but he felt a damned sight better than earlier in the day.

But it was a damned sight better than bare hands!

You look a damned sight better than I do right now."

But it is a damn sight better than going straight over the cliff,' he said.

"You'd be a damned sight better off if you did.

I would have done a damned sight better than Orrin.

They'd all be a damned sight better off dead.

Certainly the alien has to know their layout a damn sight better than us.

That's a damn sight better than six trying to wade through swamp.

"Even the worst, though, is a damn sight better than none."

That means human contact, which is a damn sight better than sitting here all by myself."

A damn sight better than sitting in a meeting.

He just said, "Well, that's a damn sight better than nothing, too."

That death's a damn sight better than the one you're facing now- kissing the block.

Else they'd have covered their tracks a damn sight better than they did."

"Great good gods, this is a damn sight better than the tent."

In many ways it was a damned sight better than today, eh?"

Those coming up from the ranks are a darned sight better than the others.

Be a darned sight better for this country if he did die!"

"But we're a darned sight better than we were.

Their cookery magazine is a darned sight better than the Waitrose one.

If he listened to Anthony Scrivener, he would be a darned sight better.

"It's a darned sight better name than Archibald Moffam."

His attic covers all God's coun- try that is out of doors and he knows the road from La Bajada hill to Barstow a darned sight better than he knows Broadway."

We had a system that was working a darn sight better than it is right now.

Those coming up from the ranks are a darned sight better than the others.

It seems to me that Gates was a darn sight better than his predecessor.

Be a darned sight better for this country if he did die!"

"But we're a darned sight better than we were.

Their cookery magazine is a darned sight better than the Waitrose one.

"It looked a darn sight better when Meg was alive," Luke said apologetically.

If he listened to Anthony Scrivener, he would be a darned sight better.

And it's a darn sight better than the 90% drop-off that many, including The Times' editor, have braced for.

"It's a darned sight better name than Archibald Moffam."

'They'd be a darn sight better.

"It would be a darn sight better," I snarled, "if she would keep her fat mouth shut about it for the longest times.

"It looks a darn sight better on you than it does on me," Mike told Jemma.

But I'm starting to get used to it, it's fascinating to find out about the way an artist works - and it's a darn sight better than putting up with a patient who's frustrated because she isn't getting anything done!'

His attic covers all God's coun- try that is out of doors and he knows the road from La Bajada hill to Barstow a darned sight better than he knows Broadway."

You may not agree with students leaving uni with high student loan debts, but it's a darn sight better than leaving with a trashed credit file, CCJs against you and bailiffs knocking on the door.

Sarah Arrow, managing editor of Birds on the Blog, said in her review that "it's good writing, it makes good reading and it's a darn sight better than a lot of rubbish that is passed off as a book these days".