Sentence examples for were rather better from inspiring English sources

US profits were rather better but they were still up only 4.7%.

Indeed there is reason to believe that the police were rather better informed about what happened than they have ever admitted.

We were rather better at this than people give us credit for, and this view of failure should be aimed not at the military, but at the politicians who negotiated the Treaty of Versailles – which left the Germans feeling the rest of the world was against them, creating an inward-looking view.

Results were rather better in our patients with VAP, in whom a clinical response was seen in 73.3% and bacterial eradication in 53.3%.

Indeed, the mood is rather better than expected.

I hope my timing at ITV is rather better".

For a start, France is rather better placed than Britain was in the 1970s.

Unfortunately, Phillips's model was rather better at this than many of its more sophisticated successors.

Moutinho, Rodriguez, Falcao and Carvalho are rather better players than most newly promoted teams can sign.

So 2013 has been rather better than the old Hollywood's business as usual.

This album is rather better when it is winking at you, rather than seeking to cryogenically preserve emotion.