Sentence examples for rather smaller than from inspiring English sources

Has never tackled these fences and rather smaller than your typical National type but seems pleasingly tough.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, April 23 , 1938P. 13 We were disappointed in Gargantua the Great, he seemed to us dispirited, rather smaller than we'd expected.

Cut the meat off the bone to create what looks like thick bacon, and separate the ribs, then divide the whole into portions that can be rather smaller than if you were serving steak or pork.

Initially, NASA was sniffy about the whole idea of space tourism—but the Russian space agency, whose budget is rather smaller than NASA’s, made it happen, and now the Americans do at least accept that they will have to share their digs with holiday-makers from time to time.

The Sub-Zero PRO 48, which the manufacturer calls "a monument to food preservation", costs about $11,000, compared with a paltry $350 for the IKEA Energisk B18 W. The lived difference, however, is rather smaller than that between having fresh meat and milk and having none.

"It's rather smaller than it could be but on the other hand that's the magic of it and it works.

However, effect sizes of currently available antidepressants are rather small than medium [ 6- 8] and treatment outcome remains disappointing with remission rates of maximal 37% [[ 9] and references inside].

It is rather smaller, however, than the NSA.

In various industries, the true innovators are rather small companies than big companies.

Meanwhile, the IPCC noted that the costs of climate damages for just another 2°C warming "are more likely than not to be greater, rather than smaller" than its estimates.

But he sees his father through his death with great care and tenderness, and writes this story in a way that -- unlike many other father-son sports memoirs -- makes it bigger rather than smaller than the football story it parallels.