acceptable vs better than nothing

acceptable

adj
  • Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable. 

  • worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure 

better than nothing

adj
  • Barely useful; almost worthless or pointless, but nevertheless better than having nothing at all. 

How often have the words acceptable and better than nothing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )