The phrase "a rather different set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more groups or categories that are distinct from each other in some way.
Example: "The researchers found a rather different set of results when they analyzed the data from the second experiment."
Alternatives: "a significantly different group" or "a notably different collection".
Before it collapses outright, we would do well to balance it with a rather different set of beliefs.
Today's bomber has a rather different set of communication capabilities than bin Laden's bombers, let alone Conrad's.
When I started my School Direct PGCE, I was presented with a rather different set of weeknight anxieties.
Random interviews suggest that they are a rather different set of people: just as angry; just as alienated; but apolitical.
In this entertaining trifle of a book, Bourdain brings a rather different set of concerns to the table, and I do mean table.
A rather different set of objects is at Yew Tree House: more than 200 thin, flat pieces of birch wood in a wide variety of curvy shapes.
After the match, which Rovers lost 3-2, hadhad a brief chat with Abramovich – "I was introduced to him, because by then we had finalised the loanees, so he's in the picture" – and that conversation took place in a rather different setting to their first meeting, when the dialogue was a little one-way.
There is therefore probably not a single set of "essential genes" for all nonphotosynthetic plants, but rather different sets of essential genes for different plants, depending on the interactions between the plastid and the nucleus that have been established over the course of evolution.
This suggests that there is no single set of plastid-encoded essential genes, but rather different sets for different species and that the retention of a gene in the plastome depends on the interaction between the nucleus and plastids.
I have grappled with two rather different sets of material effects in this article.
This shows that both methods complement each other very well as they predict rather different sets of functions.
