Sentence examples for formers rather than from inspiring English sources

"These figures also show that there are twice as many independent school students applying for university as politicians like to claim: over 14% of sixth formers rather than the 7% that is usually cited.

Moreover, individual differences arise from variability in the former rather than the latter.

We would guess that conditions are more a function of the former rather than the latter.

An earlier version referred to Carol Ann Duffy as the former, rather than current, poet laureate.

The people who commissioned that advert are the former rather than the latter.

Are we sure it isn't easier, or more important, to scale up the former rather than the latter?

Some analysts would claim that the latter generated the former, rather than vice versa, but that argument isn't convincing.

These events were 3 7 times higher in the former rather than the later, reflecting that the variation of tracer signals primarily occurred under rainfall perturbation.

Given that the philosophical theory of determinism necessarily conflicts with people's deep-rooted moral intuitions, it is better to abandon the former rather than the latter.

Moreover, the evidence of shared innovations in Aromanian and Meglenoromanian indicate that the latter branched off from the former, rather than from Romanian.

The chances of the former rather than the latter outcome being the result are greatly enhanced by moderate Leavers and Remainers co-operating.