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