Sentence examples for than instead from inspiring English sources

"Any differences they had, that should have happened in the ring rather than instead of the circumstances it did".

It's an engaging idea, but it would be nice if contrivances like this appeared as well as more serious literary programming on television, rather than instead of it.

Updated at 4.25am GMT 3.16am GMT 25th over: England 70/2 (Carberry 38 Pietersen 8) "Most batsmen are vulnerable between 1 and 10", says the wise Andrew McDonald on radio, but a worse misstep comes when Peter Siddle misjudges a return catch from Pietersen than instead of getting the batsman out, just ruins the bowler's little finger.

And what we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of".

But spending another World Food Day quoting dramatic statistics about hunger strikes me as less helpful and constructive than instead pausing to reflect on the more mundane reality that while every human must eat, not every human sees food in the same way.

The role was perceived as an "add on to", rather than "instead of", standard clinical practice.

Also, use "instead" rather than "rather" (or instead of, I should say), and "soda" instead of "pop".

Without these benefits, the elderly poverty rate would have been more than 44 percent, instead of the actual rate of less than 9 percent.

"Rather than" means "instead of" or "in place of".

This means that the artist gets on average less than 15percentt instead of 50percentt.

"Better than nothing?" Instead, he made a heartfelt plea for bipartisanship going forward.