Sentence examples for it was rather odd from inspiring English sources

But, Mr. Davis said, it was "rather odd that they would pursue a lawsuit that would slow down cleanup".

When I first heard this quote from Stephen Milne, Director of Brand Communications, I thought it was rather odd at first, but then as I learned the brand attributes and underlying meaning behind them, "Selling the dream" made perfect sense.

With its strange, rough stone and concrete sort-of-Mayan decoration, it is rather odd, and well worth seeing.

"It is rather odd," he says.

For all the galácticos on show, it's rather odd to hear Tony Gale describing the action.

So it's rather odd, in person, to hear him speaking with clipped vowels more reminiscent of Laurence Olivier than Vicky Pollard.

Or: "It is rather odd that I can't read two pages of Thackeray without yawning, when my humour is supposed to resemble his".

Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, told The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4: "It is rather odd to give this special treatment to housing given that owner-occupied housing is already extremely tax privileged.

"For me, it is rather odd that he should remain under house arrest because it is 10 years since the Soviet Union ceased to exist," she said from Paris, where she now lives.

In short it is rather odd that almost the whole world, and especially the cities where so many people spend their days, have not yet found a way to incorporate napping into the culture.

"I suppose my response to the critics would be that, given my subject matter, wouldn't it be rather odd if it was the same voice?" Mr. Mitchell has been a literary figure to watch since the publication in 1999 of his ecstatically reviewed first novel, "Ghostwritten".