a shade better

This representation is only a shade better than in 1987.

The queen would have been a shade better, making it harder for West to make the key play.

Overall score: 3.3 out of 5, a shade better than good.

We know from his notes that he considered the probability of disaster as a shade better than four to one.

Maybe I was a shade better with a rifle, but it was always a question.

Anna liked him a shade better than she had.

Bulls still look a shade better, but if they slip, Cavaliers will be waiting.

Michael was very good at it, Mary Francis even a shade better.

But Martin played the critical points just a shade better, and now he is back in the third round of the Open.

"We gave them a shade better 'n they sent us."

He had a soft purring voice that was a shade better than suave.

If he does a shade better, Gasha could still make the national records list.

People may yearn only to regard their final earthly destination as a shade better than nothing.

I assured him I could, and did it left-handed, a shade better.

"Well, you look a shade better, but I wouldn't like to see you over extend yourself without a damned good reason."

The commissary isn't all that hot, but it does a shade better than that.

The Trade Unionist stuffed with sedition was perhaps a shade better.

This guards against a singleton jack with West, and is therefore a shade better than an immediate finesse of the nine.

Their chamber was usually reserved for the personal servants of visiting nobility, and was a shade better quality than the others.

"They are just a shade better."

"I'll grant a shade better than fair."

"I'd prefer to do a shade better."

Just a Shade Better The latest apparel players are being asked to use and thus endorse: sunglasses.

He started the night with the best earned run average in the league, 2.13, at the time a shade better than Fernandez, who ranked No. 2.

Fried dumplings were a shade better than the steamed but were still not the light lovelies often served elsewhere.