The phrase "a rather major" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the significance or importance of something, often in a more informal context.
Example: "The project faced a rather major setback due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "a quite significant" or "a fairly important".
The other possible bias may be resulted from incompatibility between alleles from the parental lines, which may cause a rather major regulatory effect for the majority of genes, such as DNA methylation in germline tissues.
Just when the Phoenix Suns had proven themselves worthy of an "are they for real?" debate, they lost point guard Eric Bledsoe indefinitely with what appears to be a rather major knee injury.
The Red Wings, of course, play in a sport in which walloping people is a rather major part of the game and showing a highlight reel of the most gruesome illegal hits is considered high entertainment in Canada.
The noted Los Angeles decorator Michael Smith has had his share of pie-in-the-sky ambitions, but he achieved a rather major one when he performed a tasteful and understated (and, for the record, not taxpayer-financed) makeover for a certain Washington power couple residing at a certain Palladian-style white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Even though the European periphery is expected to go through a rather major recession, it is important to keep in mind that, much like the states in the U.S., eurozone countries face different challenges and will grow at different speeds for the foreseeable future.
Death was always on the cards for Fleming, since the Sunday Times Board meeting in April , 1961 when Fleming found himself "in the middle of a rather major heart attack" -- thanking my father for "noticing my trouble so quickly and shepherding me away," to the London Clinic.
Rather, major social ills and problems are becoming much worse.
Depending on our choice we would conclude that, for trimers, overexpression of a bridge is either a rather minor or a major factor leading to a phenotype when there is overexpression of a subunit.
"Being a parent isn't easy," said a rather patronising American major from his base in what was before his arrival the town's university.
Moreover, because the new dino, which at an estimated 757 kilograms weighed about one-tenth as much as T. rex, was found 3000 kilometers away in China's Jiangxi province, the team concludes that long-nosed tyrannosaurids were not just a fluke, but rather a major group of dinos with a wide geographical distribution.
Even as he was giving a rather moderate and balanced major foreign policy address at Town Hall Los Angeles this past, spring, he was calling for the ouster of Russia from the G-8 group of eight advanced industrial nations.
