The urban elite were primarily a closed group of educated, comparatively wealthy, and French-speaking mulattoes.

Maury became comparatively wealthy for a peasant due to his skill, hard work, and ability to find the best paying employers.

Leaving the company's employ soon after his arrival, he engaged in the fur and tobacco trade, and became a comparatively wealthy man.

The comparatively wealthy are finding it no easier, as they compete in an increasingly small pond for bigger houses.

The study of teeth and bones suggests that even those who were comparatively wealthy suffered deprivation in their youth.

Over time this made him a comparatively wealthy man, at least as far as Elizabethan actors were concerned.

Stratton was something of a dilettante: a man in young middle age, comparatively wealthy, who wrote detective stories because it amused him to do so.

"You knew, then, that when she died you would be comparatively wealthy."

Although comparatively wealthy himself, he could not afford such an estate in Britain.

Oil was discovered in Libya in 1959, and what had been one of the world's poorest countries became comparatively wealthy.