Sentence examples for there was rather from inspiring English sources

His trip there was rather like the Beatles going to New York more than a century later".

What West was doing there was rather straightforward: applying the same legal and moral rules to US aggression that he has applied to other countries and which the US applies to non-friendly, disobedient regimes.

In fact there was rather more of this kind of anecdotal reportage in Mario Vargas Llosa's book "The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérabless' " (2007), which is notably name-checked in Bellos's bibliography but not mentioned in his text.

Being at Matignon, he said (before he got there), was rather "superficial"; he was "provincial and proud of it".Ah yes, a good line to spin when conventional wisdom reckons the French are fed up with being run by an arrogant elite from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), the postgraduate school that trains France's best and brightest for plum jobs in government and the public sector.

There was rather less put De Gea's way.

There was rather less confidence about Gloucester's response.

Some of the nurses there were rather unpleasant.

But there is rather more to it.

In Wigan's case there are rather more.

In general, there is rather too much HBO-style cursing.

Bild, though, is convinced there's rather more to it.