The phrase "as rather poor" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a state of being poor, but the construction is awkward and lacks clarity.
Example: "The economic conditions in the region are as rather poor, leading to increased unemployment rates."
Alternatives: "somewhat poor" or "relatively poor".
But first he gives us some words to live by: The widespread use of the market reduces the strain on the social fabric by rendering conformity unnecesssary with respect to any activities it encompasses.Mr Friedman tends to view representative government as a rather poor means of getting things done.
Whether or not the patient was living alone could probably be regarded as a rather poor surrogate variable for social network.
We preferred to calculate EMR since (a) it is more straightforward and (b) the statistics are rather poor as will be demonstrated later, so additional division of the data into 21 age categories does not provide new information; on the contrary, it may introduce artifacts due to statistical fluctuations.
State of health was perceived as poor or rather poor by 28.1% in the angina group and by 32.8% in the infarction group.
According to the present findings many working-aged people with self-reported coronary heart disease perceive their state of health as poor or rather poor.
We found that the majority of studies had an exploratory design and as such showed a rather poor reporting and low quality as scored by the Quadas instrument for assessing methodological quality of individual studies in diagnostic reviews.
The morphologic resolutions of these CT images are rather poor as compared to MRI.
All coefficients are statistically significant at the 95% level, however the explanatory power of the model is rather poor as indicated by R2 = 0.32.
As can be expected in a data set where all choice probabilities are quite small, the fit is rather poor, as measured by the adjusted likelihood ratio index ( {overline{rho}}^2 )= 0.054.
