Sentence examples for rather significant number from inspiring English sources

Patricia Ebrey writes that even if a rather significant number of people had avoided the registration process of the tax census, the population size during the Tang had not grown significantly since the earlier Han dynasty (the census of the year 2 recording a population of roughly 58 million people in China).

It is, rather, because a significant number of people perceive a bias that they find objectionable.

But now the US is back in combat in Iraq, albeit fighting from the air rather than with any significant number of troops on the ground.

We are not pursuing this legislation to go after those companies doing the right thing, but rather to address the significant number of outliers who are shirking these reforms.

Estimation of pre-morbid QOL was done by surrogates rather than patients in a significant number of ARDS patients, potentially affecting the accuracy of baseline QOL assessment [ 44].

Rather, we have identified a significant number of domesticated TEs that share a promoter with a neighbouring gene in a head-to-head, or bidirectional arrangement.

The habitat requirements of the estuary stingray appear to be rather stringent, as significant numbers are only found at particular locations.

Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, who has campaigned with Mr. Bush in his state for the past three days, said: "I'm at a loss to explain the rather significant change in the polling numbers".

It wouldn't work unless EU members implement a common asylum policy, and unless a significant number of refugees are resettled rather than a token 10,000.

Labour has pledged to reintroduce the 10p tax rate, funded by a mansion tax on property values over £2m, but this would only benefit basic rate taxpayers, rather than those paying the 40p rate (a significant number of Telegraph readers).

"We see the objective as having a significant number of small installations in place rather than solar farms".