The phrase "a rather time" is not correct in English and does not convey a clear meaning.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, as "rather" typically modifies adjectives or adverbs, not nouns like "time."
Example: "I had a rather difficult time completing the project."
Alternatives: "a somewhat challenging time" or "a fairly tough time."
But Borders isn't counting on high-tech to challenge Amazon, it's instead turning to a rather time tested method of selling books: the bookstore.
Many structural biology- and high-throughput laboratories experience the acquisition of multiple cDNAs from different sources as a rather time- and resource-consuming procedure.
If you wish to be a loner, but have always enjoyed friendly company in the past, you may want to find a rather time consuming hobby.
That's traditionally a rather time-consuming processes when done by hand and something that sits somewhere between art and science.
We soon realized that the key hurdle was FLO's approach to setting global minimum prices for each new commodity, which was a rather time-consuming process.
This affords a high quality of the data contained in TICdb, at the cost of a rather time-consuming construction process.
Our data suggest that social and perhaps logistical support is an important component when considering participation in a rather time-consuming clinical exercise trial.
The grade of cellular differentiation is a rather time-independent statement about the aggressiveness of the tumour (in contrast to DSS).
This method is a rather time-consuming, labour-intensive and, hence, costly approach that limits its use in large-scale research studies and precludes its incorporation into screening activities.
Although these lab observations certainly provide valuable information on children's level of behavioral inhibition, they represent a rather time-consuming way of measuring this construct, and as such these procedures have limited utility for screening inhibited children in large community samples and longitudinal studies.
