The phrase "and were sometimes more" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something was occasionally greater or exceeded a certain level or expectation.
Example: "The results of the experiment were promising, and were sometimes more impressive than we had anticipated."
Alternatives: "and at times exceeded" or "and occasionally surpassed".
Indeed, this may be why false modesty is no less discomfiting to its audience (and is sometimes more so) than outright bragging.
By using a single critical value, the method is simpler than the approach of Langsrud and Naes (1998) and Venter and Steel (1998) and is sometimes more powerful.
An old friend, David Vaskevitch, who was Senior Vice-President and Chief Technical Officer at Microsoft, told me in 2008 that he believes that younger workers have more energy and are sometimes more creative.
That justice is currently "in" and is sometimes more about me than about the vulnerable and oppressed isn't all bad news, however.
"Barbie takes a lot of heat and is sometimes more of a distraction from things that are actually really hurting girls.
People are generally excited about being part of prize competitions and are sometimes more likely to give of their limited time and expertise if the commitment is for a definitive amount of time.
Patients also report that fatigue is interwoven, influenced, and intensified by pain, and is sometimes more severe than pain [ 18].
Nearly all of these patients have some sort of cortical malformation; most have perisylvian polymicrogyria, but the polymicrogyria may be more widely scattered and is sometimes more severe over the convexities.
The symptoms associated with campylobacteriosis range from mild enteritis with or without bloody diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain to severe invasive diseases, and are sometimes more severe than Salmonella and Shigella infections [ 10].
Royale has not switched away from the nPB glues, managers said, because alternatives did not work well, were sometimes more dangerous and were almost always more expensive.
