Sentence examples for mainly an alternative from inspiring English sources

"We see this as mainly an alternative to dining out with friends in a restaurant," Mr. Marshall said.

In Western Europe, LAT unions are mainly an alternative for persons who have been married before or had children in a prior relationship.

In Western Europe, LAT unions are mainly an alternative for persons having experienced prior events in the family domain, as has also been found in prior research (De Jong Gierveld 2002; Evertsson and Nyman 2013; Régnier-Lollier, Beaujouan, and Villeneuve-Gokalp 2009).

"They were for a very limited number of wealthy passengers and mainly as an alternative to luxury passenger shipping services to a very few destinations," says Douglas Botting, author of Dr Eckener's Dream Machine, a biography of the zeppelin.

At this point, Mr. Ruiz sees his proposed ferry service mainly as an alternative for those with less money, more gifts or an inability to fly because of illness or fear.

DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS -- These machines from TiVo and ReplayTV are sold mainly as an alternative to videocassette recorders; they both automatically record programs and allow people to pause live television.

The next day, Selena gave fans in Stockton, California an extended version of "El chico del apartamento 512", which mainly had an alternative ending, with Suzette Quintanilla's drum solos.

For a few chlorophyte mRNAs (mainly tubulins) an alternative polyadenylation signal (UGUAA) has been suggested [ 21- 24], and it has been proposed that chlorophytes generally use the UGUAA motif instead of AAUAAA as NUE [ 25].

COBET was looked at in relation to primary school and it was clear that COBET was seen mainly as an alternative for children from families who cannot afford primary education for all children and for children who have dropped out of school.

This is also and mainly a robust alternative to the use of a normal distribution in presence of outliers due to measurement errors, because the Student- t distribution has longer tails than its normal counterpart.

According to the mechanisms of alternative polyadenylation regulation, the proximal polyA site may mainly serve as an alternative site.