Sentence examples for but rather better from inspiring English sources

His second was rather more fortuitous but rather better taken.

What America needs isn't more cheap oil to feed a gluttonous economy, but rather better ways to use less.

Its triumph is that it does exactly what one would expect, but rather better than one had dared hope for.

Compression methods were used also for other purposes, in which the goal was not the reduction of space or processing speed-up, but rather better understanding of genomic data.

It reads as though she has attempted a modern-day reworking of Nabokov's Lolita but not pulled this off, so the end result feels worn and unoriginal; as if we have read the same book before but done rather better.

Overall, the performance of proposed scheme is comparable to Ramanjaneyulu and Rajarajeswari's scheme[24], but is rather better than Tang and Hang's scheme[25].

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

It was another dismal showing for the UK but Eurovision performed rather better for BBC1, with more than 7 million viewers, bouncing back from last year's five-year ratings low.

But it is rather better than the premium rating reached in 1994, at the height of investor enthusiasm.Encouragingly, for those of a contrarian bent, the latest Merrill Lynch survey of global fund managers found that most investors are underweight in emerging-market shares at the moment.Debt valuations look rather less favourable.

The film comes on like a thuggish teaser, strictly for the lads – two heavies, one It-girl strapped to a bed – but turns out rather better: cannily contrived, packed with U-turns, one of which completely threw Marsan when he read the script.

The predicted and simulated results indicate that the RBFANN can not only be used to establish robust model for the orthogonal experiment data but also be rather better than the quadratic regression.