Sentence examples for or rarer from inspiring English sources

To obtain these numbers, catching rounds could extend over several days (or, rarer, weeks); the catching date was then calculated as the mean date on which the frogs were caught.

"I find it more and more rare, or rarer, every year to find a piece of work that is really beautifully written and gives you something to do," said Jessica Lange, accepting a supporting actress award for "American Horror Story".

Over a long period of time, this selective pressure will change the frequency of appearance of certain gene forms, and the traits they control will become commoner or rarer in the population.

Other than the occasional disoriented stray or the victims of strandings, whales typically visit us only fleetingly, to grab a passing breath of air or, rarer still, when they're breaching: spectacular, body-long heaves, the impetus for which still baffles scientists, who have attributed them to everything from sheer exuberance to attempts to shake off body lice.

The tourists kept quiet, mostly, standing on the side of the boat where they'd been told to stand, given the radar and various other instruments that would determine the location of the whales — sometimes a female with a calf or two, or, rarer, a male on its own.

"Today's century storm would be a once-in-200 or 300-year event, or rarer if there had been no sea level rise from global warming over the last century," Strauss said.

Are upper gastrointestinal endoscopies common, or rare?

Despite its pedigree, Laird Applejack isn't expensive or rare.

Stories like Mayer's are neither new or rare.

"They will not require large facilities or rare raw materials.

A novel extraction tool can be patented, also a created product using gold or rare earth, but the extracted gold or rare earth itself cannot be patented.