Businesses and individuals were generously compensated, and the gulf region is back better than before.
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Although things are looking better than before, uncertainties around content costs and growing competition still exist.
If we add all of them together, we can see why things seem better than before.
For all this happy news, will the region weather the next global dip better than before?
Now they know their customers even better than before and gathering information takes minutes.
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"Our group is very tricky but we have to focus on doing better than before, " he said.
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We reaffirm our pledge to help them build stronger and better than before.
Mr Underhill said the overall team would be "bigger and better than before".
But his coalition partners on the right, the free-market Liberals under the punchier Frits Bolkestein, also did better than before, coming second with 25%.
One reason Hana is actually better than before is that you can now stay there in one of the style-savviest, most tranquil spa resorts around.
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"He's doing great, much better than before the trial, " she said.
Because only when you accept responsibility for your mistakes can you learn from them, pick yourself up, and come back stronger and better than before.
Nowadays, the environment for sports development is much better than before.
Change is good, and the mental energy spent figuring out how to manage algorithmic campaigns pays off in results that are five times better than before.
The core Tier 1 ratio will rise to 7%, slightly less than expected but still a lot better than before the crisis (at the end of 2007, Royal Bank of Scotland had a ratio of just 3.5%).
I'll be back even better than before.
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Not a perfect one, and certainly not a moment too soon, but a better one than before, and better late than never.
More than a few of my great journalist friends are making better livings than before, either hired by or contracting their services to vendors who have information to communicate and fewer vehicles for getting reported, especially thoroughly and accurately reported, by the traditional press.
It's CES, and in 2013 we're doing it up bigger and better than ever before.
The prospects for successful talks with the FARC look better than ever before.
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The next thing I knew, voila, my original idea had morphed and become bigger and better than ever before.
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But she says she will go into Friday's semi-finals (2000 BST) in better shape than before the Worlds last summer.
Our talent and loyalty is better now than before the crisis, and that is helping us to expand during the rebound.
Mr. FERRER: (Through translator) Certainly, I'm in a better position than before.
Despite these relatively modest purchases, both companies at least look better equipped than before to defend their traditional markets from the Americans.
Using a lot of rookie pitchers is far from a recipe for success, but the Cardinals may be doing it better than ever before.
He cites lack of water treatment, sewage and planning, and says the film-makers will likely leave the island in better condition than before they arrived.
Alluding to Katrina's disastrous aftermath, Jindal said Louisiana is "better prepared than before" and has hundreds of buses and thousands of shelter beds lined up in preparation for another storm.
We must do better than this before November 6.
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Already Indians are enjoying better service than before reforms.
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