Sentence examples for rather a long from inspiring English sources

But it's rather a long shot.

Mr Yentob's view on MGN's apology: Two years seems rather a long time in owning up.

Did he think the inquiry had gone on for rather a long time?

No doubt it does, but then it has been saying that for rather a long time.

"It happened that feeling ready took rather a long time," he recalled wryly.

There is rather a long pause, and when she speaks she speaks quietly.

This work is a tactical quick-fix rather a long-term strategy, and NHS Improvement knows that in 2016 it will need to go much further – mapping out development routes that go all the way from graduate training to boards.

"The unprecedented speed of the entry into force of the Paris agreement demonstrates that Paris was not a one-off deal, but rather a long-term commitment to climate action," said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International.

Ms. Russo, who had been chief executive of Lucent, defended the merger and said the multibillion-euro "impairment" charge did not reflect any company lack of faith in CDMA, which is used largely in the United States and Asia, but was rather a long-term view of the technology and the changing market.

However, rather a long-term declining trend in permanent hirings seems evident (e.g. Austria, Belgium and Luxemburg), while a cyclical component seems to dominate in countries such as Ireland or Latvia.

The housing crisis was not an inevitable glitch in the system, but rather a long-foreseen consequence of an industry running rampant in the name of profit.