The phrase "are rather likely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a probability or likelihood of something happening in a more nuanced way.
Example: "Given the current trends, they are rather likely to succeed in their venture."
Alternatives: "are quite likely" or "are fairly likely".
Now that the Supreme Court has again emphasized that federal trial judges have the discretion to move outside the guidelines, further departures are rather likely.
While gene flow and dispersal are low in both species, the widely different histories are rather likely to have arisen from ecological differences such as diet breadth, generation time, and habitat specificity.
Although this might account for some differences in host gene expression, the specific processes following the two routes of infection are rather likely responsible for the strong differences.
In this context it should be pointed out that many standard over-expression experiments are rather likely to produce substantial artefacts: the resulting inappropriate amounts and localisations of signalling components will often lead to signal spill-over and/or disrupt the functionality of native complexes.
Although insufficient bone coverage could arguably be attributable to a poor surgical technique, we would tend to agree with other authors that it is rather likely to result from a flawed implant design that impedes osseointegration.
"If we are getting for example a massive amount of tweets, photos, Flickr, and YouTube movies about the earthquake in Haiti or Chile, the fact that some of those may be false is rather likely.
The medical director at Hometown Hospice, Dr. Sumpter D. Blackmon, said he relied heavily on the judgment of the hospice's nurses to determine whether prospective patients were rather likely to live longer than six months.
There's a basic showbiz rule to predict the overall quality of MTG productions: if the show is by Sondheim, it will be excellent; otherwise, it's rather likely to be a mixed bag, ranging somewhere between innocuously pleasant and head-scratchingly amateurish.
One of our favorite clichés from that time is, "That would be letting the terrorists win". Well, reminding ourselves (and them) of their success, however momentary, is not going to make us feel better in any way I can imagine – but is rather likely to encourage "them" to preen reminiscing about their actions.
In particular the SINR of the worst user in a cell is rather likely to be very small.
But if the responses are to help adjudicate between competing theories, the responders must be more or less theoretically neutral, and this sort of neutrality, we suspect, is rather likely to be vitiated by philosophical education.
