Sentence examples for a rare rather from inspiring English sources

If Mr Vander Plaats is successful, he will have undermined a rare, rather good system.(Photo credit: AFP).

By Shauna Lyon On a desolate block in Tribeca, there's a sweet little subterranean sushi den with nine seats and a rare, rather sublime intimacy.

The committee concluded, says Hahlbrock, that "a falsified description in a publication cannot be tolerated, no matter it dates back 20 years," and recommended that Seeburg be censured--a rare and rather exceptional measure.

The fact that barbels have arisen independently in many cyprinids suggests that the mechanisms of barbel development are not so complex as to be rare; rather, like a switch, a barbel can be turned "on" or "off" rather frequently in evolutionary time.

This contract included a rare and rather mind-boggling no-trade guarantee, which gave Anthony the power to veto any destination not to his liking.

THE pink sea fan is a rare and rather pretty bony coral that dwells in the warm waters around the south-west of England.

The Syrians – and Mr Zoubi, who is a political analyst of a rare if rather intense kind within the Damascus government – have learnt a lot from CNN and Al-Jazeera.

Wycombe beat Bradford 1-0 toanks to a rare and rather controversial double-advantage: most of Bradford's players stopped when the Chairboys' Stuart Beavon went down clutching his leg and the linesman started waving his flag, but the referee waved play on.

I googled a few stats that, for my next turbulent flight, might help me imagine a crash as a rare possibility rather than a probability (e.g.: the odds of death by commercial plane crash are one in 7 million).

As we are now tragically witnessing in Iraq, U.S. intervention has often been used as a band-aid for complex situations that require long-term, multifaceted engagement in countries, and well-timed and planned withdrawals have clearly become a rare exception rather than the rule.

Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine (NE) tumours represent a rare and rather heterogeneous tumour entity.