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1438 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) App. B. 511 The rafteris shulle contayne in the foot viij enches or better.

1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 177 The golde..is..of .xxii. caractes or better in fynesse.

1686 S. Sewall Letter-Bk. (1886) I. 32 A small trus of Bever in a box weighing sixteen pounds or better.

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. ii. 256 A Piece of thin Sheet-lead rolled up, of about an Ounce or better, makes the best Plummet.

1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 160 He would point out to me a horse with the remark..‘can take a forty clip or better any day in the week’.

1889 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 13/2 All officers and members of organizations armed with the Remington rifle scoring 25 points or better at 200 and 500 yards..were accounted ‘marksmen’.

1921 R. W. Chambers Little Red Foot xxxi. 344 A body of green-coats,—some three hundred or better,—marching down the Schenectady road.

1942 Fortune Nov. 60/1 A flight timer that will clock pursuit planes traveling 400 m.p.h. or better.

1987 Canad. Geographic Dec. 76/2 Half of the school's 44 graduates were Ontario Scholars, with averages of 80 percent or better.

2012 C. Haines Bonefire of Vanities iii. 42 Mariam Littlefield has been dead for two decades or better.