Sentence examples for rare rather than from inspiring English sources

But undercooking marred two dishes: grouper with a pink, rubbery center and a rib-eye steak that was blood rare rather than the medium rare ordered.

In an era of unpopular, costly government bailouts, Americans have every right to demand that NASA cease bailing out its own errant projects and make cost increases rare, rather than routine.

This finding, coupled with the general lack of success so far in finding common variants for schizophrenia, raises the possibility that the genetic component of the disease is due to a large number of variants, each of which is very rare, rather than to a handful of common variants.

Parasites and hosts often coevolve through selection that favors rare, rather than more highly defended, genetic forms (Lively 2010).

The pedagogical approach of his HHMI-funded program is equally rare; rather than selecting research students with impeccable academic credentials, Warner's program admits only students with grade point averages between 2.5 and 3.0.

Why doesn't that model generalise to America at large? "Imagine how much more pleasant our lives would be if we just kept up the public furniture enough that rust, cracks, leaky roofs and toilets that stop up became rare rather than commonplace".

It was too chewy (even for hanger); it had picked up no flavor from its marinade and was served purple-rare rather than medium-rare as requested.

It consisted of a perfectly grilled shrimp, a perfectly grilled sea scallop and a not-so-perfectly grilled lamb chop (purple-rare rather than pink as ordered).

I wish that the salmon had been medium-rare rather than medium, and that its spring vegetable garnish and gnocchi had been hotter; the tarragon butter sauce pulled it together.

Class II-V punctuational theories of evolution also predict that the paleontological record will more often show a gradual change from common to rare species rather than the opposite change from rare to common species.

Interpreting choices of allocation in this case is more complicated because dividing the available funds equally means treating 200 patients with the common disease and 50 patients with the rare disease rather than equal numbers of patients, an outcome that would occur if 80% of funds were devoted to the rare disease.