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a1450 E. Clere in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 32 He seith to me he is þe last in þe tayle of his lyflode, þe qweche is cccl marke and better.

1521 in W. C. Dickinson Sheriff Court Bk. Fife (1928) 229 The hors wes wortht viij merkis & bettir.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1382/1 Woorth one hundred and twentie pounds and better.

1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iii. 15 Vntill nine and better they are exercised in repeating.

1679 R. Hooke Lectiones Cutlerianae 49 One root.., with all the growth out of it, I have found weighing ten pounds and better.

1744 B. Lynch Guide to Health i. iii. 47 An extraordinary long Life, even of an hundred Years and better.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. iv. 62 Ah! poor man! he has been dead these eight years and better . View more context for this quotation

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 164 Pursued by half a score of horsemen, and better.

1903 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk ii. 28 The very name of the Bureau stood for a thing in the South which for two centuries and better men had refused even to argue.

1931 PMLA 46 1306 He's been a-livin' here these last six weeks an' better.

1994 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 27 Mar. c10/4 The river holds a number of true ‘hogs’—fish of 5 pounds and better.