Sentence examples for but perhaps rather from inspiring English sources

But perhaps rather than calling the whole thing off, now is the time to experiment.

His successor, Oliver Heald, is equally charming, but perhaps rather more Conservative.

Nowadays, all my lessons are electronically presented and stored on a hard drive but, perhaps rather quaintly, I have kept everything from that era.

The tally, such as it is, gives Karzai 54.6 per cent, enough to avoid a run-off but perhaps rather too much to avoid the conclusion that this was a dismally corrupt election.

In the mid-1950s he paraded the slogan "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom," ostensibly to encourage the voicing of new ideas on national development but perhaps rather to entice potential dissenters into revealing themselves.

Americans visiting here find the absence of issues and the absence of public involvement strange but perhaps rather wel come after the terrible divi sions and emotionalism of life in the United States.

Much less discussed than the aid for undergraduates, but of perhaps rather greater consequence for the University of Chicago, is Princeton's simultaneous decision to increase substantially its financial aid for graduate students.

But they were perhaps rather less pleased when she announced she was jacking in her job and the pension that went with it to try to get elected as a Tory, and in Glasgow of all places (she now represents Edinburgh Central).

And you need lots of free time - time to master the odd conventions and the unfamiliar vocabulary (words such as "smerge", "hatnote", "meat puppet" [9] and "fancruft"), and time to read through guidelines and policy pages and essays and the endless records of old skirmishes - and time to have been gently but firmly, or perhaps rather sharply, reminded by other editors how you should behave.

The first part of that statement is perhaps rather questionable, but it is certainly true that racist crowds at World Cups are not just down to the local fans.

Consistent chuckles, perhaps, rather than belly laughs, but always fun.