Sentence examples for rather and very from inspiring English sources

One guess is that they are overlooking many: much, quite, rather and very are common adverbs, but they do not jump out as adverbs in the way that words ending with –ly do.

Pay for performance, utilization review and selective contracting, had mean scores below 2 (between rather and very negative).

If the symptoms had started after the eruption, they were asked to quantify how much these symptoms affected their daily life on a 3-point scale (rather little, rather much and very much).

Respondents could select five options for each aspect, which were "very beneficial", "rather beneficial", "neutral", "rather detrimental", and "very detrimental".

Response alternatives for each item were very good, rather good, moderate, rather poor and very poor.

Attitude towards the smoke-free school policy was examined using a 5-point Likert scale (very positive, rather positive, equivocal, rather negative, and very negative).

The optional answers were: "very easy", "rather easy", "neither easy nor difficult", "rather difficult" and "very difficult".

The meeting was rather casual – and very Blairish.

We had a rather pretty and very fancy cabin on the banks of Douglas Lake.

There are approximately 100 species constituting the rather large and very diverse sulfosalt class of minerals.

This was rather tiring, and very much a tale of two halves.