Sentence examples for rather a pair of from inspiring English sources

(By the way, what I'm referring to here is not a type of jacket, but rather a pair of Nike trainers).

These data suggest that citrinin itself is not the active species, but rather a pair of hydrated Michael addition products consisting of substituted 2,6-dihydroxy benzoic acids.

Both nefarious and tech-saavy, the ingenious mechanism wasn't fathered by a group of web hackers, but rather a pair of Berlin artists, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev.

Additionally, recent Cryo-EM analysis suggests that the basic building block of the cartwheel stack is not a single ring and spoke structure, but rather a pair of rings that sit on top of one another: these rings do not make direct contact with each other, but are joined in the more peripheral regions through their spokes (Guichard et al., 2012, 2013).

The Fashion Audit would rather have a pair of these bright satin beauties any day.

Would you rather buy a pair of patterned wellies, or turn your car into a "seed bomb"?

At this point the structure took on the appearance of a single, large building, rather than a pair of small ones.

He will be hoping that his knitting needles fend off the bank's critics who would rather take a pair of scissors to the institution.

All the merger does is give [shareholders] a single diminishing asset rather than a pair of diminishing assets.' But for many observers, ITV is far from being a busted flush.

The Crispr part is the programmable molecular machinery that aligns the gene-editing tool at exactly the correct position on the DNA molecule, while the Cas9 is a bacterial enzyme that cuts the DNA rather like a pair of molecular scissors.

This service rather than a pair of street-savvy cans might be the real prize.