Sentence examples for are rather better from inspiring English sources

Moutinho, Rodriguez, Falcao and Carvalho are rather better players than most newly promoted teams can sign.

What they went on to become – respectively, the Exile classics Sweet Black Angel and Tumbling Dice – are rather better known.

The intention is to fill the rooms gradually as more money becomes available.Garden lovers are rather better served at Eltham.

Call-centres are rather better placed, as central Europe's language skills give it a big advantage over most other locations.

Or at least, it does telegraph quite strongly that they are a bog-standard indie band, but they are rather better than that.

Though things are worse than they were four years ago, they are rather better than they were last year, when unemployment peaked at over 6%.

Indeed, the mood is rather better than expected.

I hope my timing at ITV is rather better".

US profits were rather better but they were still up only 4.7%.

For a start, France is rather better placed than Britain was in the 1970s.

Unfortunately, Phillips's model was rather better at this than many of its more sophisticated successors.