"rather more important" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize that something is significantly more important or significant than another thing. Example: "While the budget deficit is a pressing issue, the rising levels of income inequality are rather more important for the overall socioeconomic well-being of the country."
It will help a few manufacturers and Bond Street retailers of luxury goods, but our precarious over-dependence on imports means steep price rises ahead in petrol and food are rather more important than cheaper Burberry handbags.
You'd think they were doing something rather more important than singing pop songs, wouldn't you?
This is to me rather more important than the inter-hospital comparison.
They are not asked the rather more important question of whether metrics are a good idea.
They do rather more important work, matching tissue types for bone marrow transplants and saving lives.
There are two pensions revolutions going on – one you've all heard about, and one that is probably rather more important.
The truly amazing thing is that 30 years into the modern war on drugs, the discourse is still focused disproportionately on marijuana rather than more important and excruciatingly hard problems like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines.
There must be something more to the success of such a varied group than their skeletal and muscular inheritance.But what of our second heretical notion, that the best sports are those where bigness is less rather than more important?
And can anyone for instance defend the point of view that, given the events, the negotiations with Turkey have become less, rather than more, important?" He added: "I believe that today Poland is a very good example of a country that was worth investing in, a country which for historical reasons had for many years been outside the European Union".
Dr Johnson at Rice University suggests that ad hoc networking will create more scope for "mom and pop" network operators and free community networks, all stitched together in a casual, ever-shifting web.Network operators will still be needed to carry long-haul traffic, but their role could become less (rather than more) important in future.
It said companies lacked game designers for their applications, and games tended to focus on giving out points, badges and leaderboard rankings rather than more important elements such as balancing competition and collaboration.
