Sentence examples for rather than very from inspiring English sources

But Erpenbeck's last-minute rescues are wistful rather than very probable.

There have not been any glaring deficiencies, just a perception of the department as so-so rather than very good.

A lot of bosses do feel a bit tacked on at the moment, rather than very robust.

It was hard enough for many on the Security Council to accept that the consequences should be "severest", rather than "very severe".

"In this case, we just had a very significant amount of bluff lost in one fell swoop, rather than very slowly over time".

And, if the second half of this three-hour play were as riveting as the first, it would be masterly rather than very good.

The results for 1993 suggest that immigrants were more likely to be employed in medium-sized firms rather than in very small or very large firms, but the differences are small and not always statistically significant.

This component (the one which most closely meets current dietary recommendations) was favoured by those of middle years rather than the very old or very young.

Use lukewarm water when you wash your face, rather than using very hot or very cold water.

Keeping an average hair length, rather than a very long or very short one, can also make the face look less long.

Prisoner's Dilemmas could be argued to reemerge even where payoffs vary widely, because of the fact that adjacent payoffs will sometimes turn out to be very far apart, rather than being very close together (and overlapping).