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Meanings of surely better in English

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Usage of surely better in English
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
Middlemarch
2
If sport is good then more sport is surely better?
The Irish Times
3
Carson is in heaven, and it's surely better than what we have down here.
Union Atlantic
4
It's surely better to pray about him like you prayed.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
5
He sang it well; indeed, surely better than the friar had heard it done before.
For Love Of Evil
6
Not that I mind being made hot; it is surely better than being made cold.
The Legacy of Cain
7
It is surely better for me to give the water to them than to you.
Aesop's Fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend
8
It were surely better to die at once, than to listen to these dreadful sounds.
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
9
A simple marble slab were surely better than these pretentious lies: anything so it be genuine.
Round the World
10
The open air, the erect attitude, are surely better than sitting in a stuffy, enervating bedroom.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
11
Even so fat an old man as Fosco is surely better than no escort at all?
The Woman in White
12
Having your own name or initials on your clothes is surely better than having other people's, isn't it?
The Guardian
13
It were surely better to make a good bargain with me than a bad one with the Basha.
The Sea-Hawk
14
But you had surely better see, first, what is of his best time and of the best kind.
Mornings in Florence
15
It mayn't be just what you'd like, but it's surely better than-thanwhat you wouldn't like at all.
The Street Called Straight
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We didn't necessarily believe it would be heaven, but it would be surely better than 18 years of Conservatism.
The Guardian
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