Sentence examples for rather first from inspiring English sources

Which would they rather first: wipe out the disease or get the web?

The truth is that the police are too often being used as a last, or rather first, resort because other services aren't doing their job or are underfunded.

The age of puberty is falling The age of puberty (or rather first period) was 17 in the mid 19th century and is now about 12.

Rather, first I obsessed — the house was a six-month rental, which was longer than I had planned on, the price was somewhat higher than I had figured on paying, and there was the matter of logistics — and then I took it.

Expectations surrounding the arrival of Beady Eye were low in one respect but mega in two others: forget their record, because any incarnation of latter-day Oasis minus their chief songwriter was scarcely likely to ring the sonic changes; rather, first, what about the interviews?

While in the wilderness on her own, she encounters or, rather, first becomes vaguely aware of, then sees, then cultivates a tenuous relationship with the creature, who is depicted not as a figment of her imagination or a projection of fantasy but an actual forest-dweller.

John McLauchlin writes "Pim Verbeek's is the real second choice Stheve or rather second choice Pim.

One wrote that the royals were "a very ordinary rather second rate family," but that the Queen "had real distinction.

Anyone who watched Jeremy Corbyn's rambling, and rather second-rate, EU speech will have wondered how he became Labour leader.

It is, on the whole disturbing to realize that a rather second-rate little Aryan corporal is impinging on the lives and customs of our First Citizens.

Peggy, meanwhile, finished season four bewailing the fact that her own success in saving the firm had been ignored when Don announced his second (or rather third) marriage.