The phrase "a rather tall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that has a significant height, often in a more subjective or nuanced way.
Example: "He is a rather tall individual, making him stand out in a crowd."
Alternatives: "quite tall" or "fairly tall".
You may well quibble that that is a rather tall order for individuals without Rupert mediach-like media power.
It's a rather tall 33-inch standard seat height, which would usually be a challenge for my 32-inch inseam, but thanks to a narrow saddle I was nearly able to put my feet flat on the ground at stoplights.
The same concern may occur during another hysterical scene between the two characters in which Joel finds himself stranded on a rather tall ladder, at Nick's wild-eyed mercy.
To its credit, the bill places some limits on scaffolding ads, preventing them from becoming Christo-esque: each one could not be taller than a (rather tall) eight feet and must also comply with minimal rather than minimalist "design guidelines".
He handed me a dusty photograph featuring a rather tall man reminiscent of the orangutan in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and a blond woman with a somewhat vacuous expression.
The Dallas Morning News created an online guest book for readers to "leave condolences, share your Big Tex memories," and the newspaper also posted a link to the 911 call ("We've got a rather tall cowboy, all his clothes burned off").
He tells us that Ramus was as dark-skinned as an Italian or a Spaniard, rather tall and had an impressively black and bushy beard, of which he was very proud once when the rector of the University of Paris ordered all professors to shave, Ramus obeyed but stayed at home until his beard had grown out again.
He asks whether, beneath the various versions, there is "a story of a willful and beautiful teenager, rather tall and perhaps a little bit spoiled, a girl whose flighty and egotistical personality, subjected to the tremendous and crushing pressures, to the unimaginable forces of hardship and suffering and grief under the Occupation, had metamorphosed into something heroic and brilliant".
These gave details of the Bellas last voyage and described Roger Tichborne as "of a delicate constitution, rather tall, with very light brown hair and blue eyes".
The most influential description of Anne, but also the least reliable, was written by the Catholic propagandist and polemicist Nicholas Sanders in 1586, half a century after Anne's death: "Anne Boleyn was rather tall of stature, with black hair, and an oval face of a sallow complexion, as if troubled with jaundice.
"When I turned up I was told that someone rather tall was coming for a press conference," says Becky MacFie, from Edinburgh.
