Sentence examples for is rather slim from inspiring English sources

"The likelihood that people are going to take seriously anything he says or rely on it in the future is rather slim," the judge, Charles P. Sifton, said before announcing the sentence.

Since Iraq is now about as popular in the national psyche as anthrax, the chances are rather slim that Laura will be entertaining anyone hailing from Baghdad or Basra.

Admittedly, my claim seemed like wishful thinking, as the political chances for launching a new round were rather slim.

The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim.

But once you get past the apps that should obviously be on any modern platform, the pickings are rather slim.

But the evidence can be rather slim: 'at least some of them [non-whites] may have had prior knowledge of open-range cattle herding, whereas 'none of the [white] ranchers had any such experience' (p. 94).

While Salt Lake's pickins' used to be rather slim (there is a high ratio of Red Lobsters to residents), the restaurant scene now offers a mix of fine American, Asian and Italian dining.

Though model theory provided the first steps in nonstandard analysis, this branch of analysis rapidly became a subject in its own right, and its links with first-order model theory today are rather slim.

The difference is that in Grajaú, the chances of a wall remaining homogeneous are rather slim.

This thought doesn't even register with Marc; he is happy waiting until a few loads piled up or until our clean clothing supplies were rather slim.

Certain dumb-bell- and cup-shaped organelles are rather slim in the middle, suggesting that these organelles might be fission stages similar to the fission stages of Trichomonas vaginalis hydrogenosomes [ 32].