Sentence examples for but rather fewer from inspiring English sources

This was a million more than the 2.6 million who saw BBC1's Panorama, about terror groups on the Pakistan-Afghan border, but rather fewer than the 9.5 million, a 40% share, who watched Coronation Street at the same time on ITV1.

It's unlikely that there are more bees in cities, but rather fewer flowers, so bees really concentrate on the few they can find.

But rather few here seem to feel exactly delighted, because so many of them voted for somebody else as their first choiceMr Clegg's best point came when he framed his desire to see more weight given to third party votes with a concession.

We report here that ionocytes do not contain numerous small-sized mitochondria as has been suggested earlier but rather few, extremely elongated megamitochondria.

Past attempts have been made to understand the variability of stemflow under different types of vegetation, but rather few studies have focused on the combined influence of biotic and abiotic factors on inter and intra-storm stemflow variability, and none in Mediterranean climates.

Performing pelvic floor ultrasound provides valuable information about vaginal meshes but rather few information about meshes used for sacropexy because it is not capable of showing the meshes lying above the pelvis.

As any schoolchild in China could tell you – but probably rather fewer adults here – the nadir came a couple of centuries ago, when Britain sent in gunboats to protect its drug sales.

There are still interchanges going on, and in particular the new analysis still has a "last-minute" switch built in as the nearest relatives to Tyrannosaurus itself are actually Asian, but this is rather fewer than before.

We hypothesized that the in- and out degree centralities of natural-resource occupations would decline with increasing socioeconomic development, hence implying that not only fewer households engage in such occupations, but rather that fewer households engage in these occupations while simultaneously working with something else.

The last 30 years or so have seen many predictions of S&T labor shortages, but with rather few exceptions those predictions have proved wrong or, at best, exaggerated.

Numerous efforts have been made to engineer REases for altered specificity but with rather few successful examples.