So we have a slightly better idea of how the bets were taken and how UBS missed them.
The IMF issued a slightly better forecast for the world economy than the one it produced in April.
"Some supposed we'd get a slightly better result but I am very satisfied, we are very satisfied, " he said.
If they pick something up, might Judy be in a slightly better situation?
Fifth-placed Tottenham also have a game in hand on Liverpool and are three points ahead with a slightly better goal difference.
Which means that the difference between being a very good footballer indeed and being a slightly better one is all important.
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You can turn off WLAN Power Save for a slightly better connection.
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Chevron offers a slightly better payout than Exxon, but lags Houston-based ConocoPhillips.
Baladi bread of a slightly better quality sold at market prices in the wealthier suburbs of Cairo can go up to 13 cents a loaf.
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Thanks to some impressive Click-style crowd-sourcing, we have a slightly better idea of whether or not we really are all living in the filter bubble.
You know, a few years after World War II, a child who was born into poverty had a slightly better than 50-50 chance of becoming middle class as an adult.
Someone, somewhere might have a slightly better idea of some of this, but my academic friend, whose job it is to try to understand the illness, is exasperated by the difficulty of finding out the basics.
But I suppose we can always hope that in another 60 years, when a banking crisis next precipitates a great global recession, we'll do a slightly better job as citizens at holding the technocrats to account.
All in all, the remaining societies are asking their members to forsake the substantial payout that results from a conversion, but can only offer in return the possibility of a slightly better long-term deal on their savings and mortgages.
In the heated race to develop new hepatitis C drugs that boost the cure rate, Wall Street thinks Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a slightly better drug than a rival entry from Merck, and thus will garner the large majority of sales.
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In healthy women the drugs don't appear to save lives at all, and the evidence they prevent heart disease is weak: Statin takers have only a slightly better chance of avoiding heart disease than women on a placebo, according to a recent analysis.
As to decoupling, although the rest of the world remains somewhat vulnerable to America's troubles, most rich economies are in a slightly better shape than the United States, and most emerging ones are better able to withstand an American downturn than they were (see article).
And a handful did slightly better by including a name and phone number but no email.
The major financial capitals are doing a slightly bit better.
Republicans who have tried to amend parts of the law have faced criticism from other opponents of the act, who say it is a strategic mistake to try to make what they consider a bad law slightly better.
The hugely challenging question for the Treasury in the coming few months is whether to accept a loss on initial sales of taxpayers' shares in the bank - in the hope that in some nebulous way, a slightly less nationalised bank will be a better performing bank.
The processing power of the device matters to a small extent (an iPad 2 will deliver somewhat better performance than a slightly slower first generation iPad) but the most important factor is the speed of the network which is why the company recommends WiFi or a 4G mobile connection.
Last quarter, China's economy grew at a pace of 7.9%, slightly better than analyst expectations and breaking a pattern of seven straight quarters of decline.
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Vertex could win the race to the market, yet still lose out in the long run as competitors introduce slightly better drugs a couple of years later.
The same game with slightly better AI would be a solid contender, and the addition of carrier-versus-carrier multiplayer would been fascinating.
Wearing clothes only slightly better than those of a maidservant, she saw from a distance the young men at the weddings to which she accompanied Begum Harouni.
There is also the awkward fact that the economies at the centre of this crisis have still managed to grow nearly three times faster than the UK over the past year - a fact highlighted by today's slightly better-than-expected GDP numbers for the third quarter.
They gave the legislature a rating of 3.1, again slightly better than Europeans and Americans.
Grade-schoolers fared only slightly better, with less than a third reading at or above national norms.
But for other men, the ability of the PSA test to detect prostate cancer is slightly better than the flip of a coin.
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