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• It is a rather grey, colourless city, with few interesting sights or historical monuments.

• His books tend to be rather densely written.

• The company's prospects for the future are rather dim.

• She found the formality of the occasion rather daunting.

• To people who don't know him he probably appears (to be) rather unfriendly.

• I'll be home before 6, or rather, I will unless I get asked to stay late again.

• She's not shy. Rather the opposite.

• She was in a good mood, or rather she was until she heard the bad news.

• They go on holiday to France every year, or rather, they have done for the last ten years.

• He's selling his flat, or rather, he will sell it if he can find a buyer.

• You can use cocoa powder to make the cake rather than chocolate - it's a bit of a cheat, but nobody notices the difference.

• Helicopters are mainly used for military rather than civil use.

• The matter would be better dealt with in the civil court rather than by an expensive criminal proceeding.

• Most convalescents prefer to be cared for at home rather than in a hospital.

• I prefer photographing people rather than places.

• I'd rather not have any mushrooms, thanks.

• I'd rather get a taxi than wait for the bus.

• Would you rather eat now or later?

• I'd rather watch a film with subtitles than one dubbed into English.

• He boobed rather badly by getting her name wrong.

• I think my husband is the most handsome man in the world, but I realize my judgment is rather subjective.

• I've had a sort-out in the bedroom - it's looking rather better.

• I heard something rather worrying at work this morning.

• Jane has rather a sharp tongue, I'm afraid.

• The intentions of policy thus need to be seen against the plans rather than the outcomes.

• How do you know that said popinjays aren't sitting on the background rather than the stripe (the ordinary)?

• Analysis of single channel records indicate that the effect is to favor transition to a substate rather than to physically alter the conductance pathway.

• Their connection was purely mechanical, rather than teleological.

• We can differentiate these categories as purely lexical, rather than syntactic.

• In this sense they corresponded with purely phonological rather than morphosyntactic attributes of the input.

• Actual choices are relevant not to the idea of the right but rather to its direction of exercise with respect to the protected domain.

• In live performance, their bodies are exposed to view rather than protected by instruments.

• The findings underline the importance of using specific rather than general tasks to assess phonology, phonological sensitivity, and phonological representations.

• Past studies have focused on the effects of density on spoken language processing, rather than the effects of density on the structure of lexical representations.

• Clearly, the public health official is not replacing the physician; rather, ethicists now realize a need to be in dialogue with both.

• It is, rather, a matter of what it is that parties can choose and what they can influence.

• This test did not reject the hypothesis of orthogonality so the estimation was done through a random effects model rather than a fixed effects model.

• Ground-penetrating radar is also treated rather briefly, with no description of field techniques.

• Therefore, growth rates may increase over time simply because the initial and descendant cells are recovering from treatment rather than evolving.