Sentence examples for has performed rather from inspiring English sources

The commission is forecasting growth in 2003 of 2.2% for the British economy, which it says has performed "rather well" of late.

The BFG has performed rather disappointingly in the US, but UK distributor eOne can point to the huge popularity of author Roald Dahl and the film's British cast and setting.

That's despite the fact that the economy has performed rather better since the referendum than the Bank envisaged when it announced its big package of stimulus measures in early August.

The big news at the Metropolitan Opera is that Bellini's "Norma," an exceedingly challenging bel-canto opera that the Met has performed rather too often over the last decade and a half, is back, with a cast and, with some caveats, a production that is worthy of it.

And so, despite stellar results for the first three quarters of this year, advertising shares have performed rather poorly.

If the most touching line in the diaries is about his young children, "gentle, open-minded, uncontaminated and surpassingly beautiful," the most poignant is a memory of how "in The Observer days Terry used to say: 'I say -- you've performed rather well this week.' In L.A. I am cut off from audience reaction".

But the pain has not been produced because business has performed badly, but rather because stocks have underperformed business.

Generally, in such studies, the penetration of the electrodes has been performed rather blindly to reach an expected specific location by using the stereotactic coordinates as the reference coordinates [ 2, 3].

Interestingly, peptides 3 and 5 had previously performed rather poorly in direct thioester formation, and this new method presented a significant improvement.

What was wrong with them that this was their reaction — this sense of gratitude, as if Kay-Kay had performed a rescue rather than the reverse?

Examples exist in which an individual or subset of predictive genes have been proposed; however, these studies have performed class comparison rather than class prediction.