Sentence examples for it worked rather from inspiring English sources

It worked rather well for the London Olympics, after all.

The preliminary results show that it worked rather well.The mechanical cushioning system that Mr Kellas has designed has flexible hinges at the junction of each cell in the honeycomb.

Ashley claims that it worked "rather like a prism, splitting Doyle's career into the spectrum of his passions and then re‑forming them back into his life", and the results were certainly diverse.

You see this all the time in sports, where broadcasters are fond of proclaiming the wisdom or foolishness of a manager's choice based entirely on whether or not it worked, rather than on the basis of whether or not it was the smart play according to the percentages.

If he has greater distance now, it is only because more time has passed, not because there has been any true accounting; if anything, we have slid into an odd state of complacency about the torture in the Bush years, watching it in movies and wondering whether it worked, rather than asking who might be culpable.

Instead, we observed that it worked rather weakly, with much cross-hybridisation of probes, and the genomic distinction was only resolvable after electronic merging of images.

The debate on adoption has always been about its effectiveness: does it work, rather than is it right.

However, the popularity of ketamine as a recreational drug has led to recent research focusing on how it works rather than exploring its potential to treat depression.

I think it works rather well.

We know how it works – and it works rather beautifully.

Most of the time it works rather well.