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Example sentences for "rather more"

  • Lemon Jelly is made precisely as directed for the orange jelly, using all lemon-juice instead of orange, rather more syrup, and omitting the cochineal.

  • In the same collection is another specimen, rather more elongated in form, and of more ordinary material, found near Harome, in Yorkshire, in a district where a number of stone implements of rare types have been discovered.

  • If something not so literary is meant by scholarship, if a study of finance, of economics, of international affairs is in question, it seems to go on rather more to their own satisfaction than that of their critics.

  • I should be rather more surprised if I went through Italy and met none of Verga's or Fogazzaro's, but that would be because I already knew Italy a little.

  • On the north face of the pass snow lay thickly for two miles or rather more, and more scantily for a mile further.

  • Two eggs collected in the same locality on May 26, are "rather more oval in shape than the above and more richly marked.

  • Bouterwek depreciates it in rather more sweeping a manner than seems consistent with the admissions he afterwards makes.

  • Rather more than a little girl now,' returned Hood.

  • I think I've got something here that will be rather more in your line.

  • Winds and weather as yesterday, or rather more Stormy; we have now no Success in the Sein fishing, hardly getting above 20 or 30 pounds a day.

  • The land on the Northern part of the Cape is rather more hilly, and the shore forms some small bays, wherein there appear'd to be good Anchorage, and the Vallies appear'd to be tolerably well Cloathed with wood.

  • These bookcases have a total height of rather more than 12 ft, measured from the floor to the top of the cornice.

  • Among the whole royal family there is only one child, a dear little girl of rather more than a year old.

  • The vegetation was as luxuriant and beautiful as usual--in fact, rather more so; for we are now advancing northwards at the rate of about a hundred miles a day.

  • It is rather more like a lodging-house than an hotel, however.

  • Although there is rather more of mechanism, and less of sleight of hand, in it than I usually adopt, still this is such a very pretty trick that it would be a pity not to mention it.

  • The best way to assume this by no means easy appearance, is to affect to be rather more amused at the ascension of the cards from the bouquet than the audience itself.

  • The length of this projecting portion will be rather more than an inch, and is easily hidden from the spectators by means of the first and second fingers of the left hand.

  • It is equally necessary (or rather more so, since evidence not being on oath in the lower house, there can be no punishment in the course of law) that the contumacy or prevarication of witnesses should incur a similar penalty.

  • The parasite is rather more than an inch and a quarter in length, being pointed at one end and blunt at the other.

  • Fried eggs, to look nice, should have the yolk in the centre, surrounded by a ring of white, perfectly round, rather more than an inch in breadth.

  • Half a pound; if apple is mixed, rather more.

  • Peel and take out the cores of about four pounds of apples, and let these simmer till they are quite tender in rather more than a pint of water.

  • Boil these for an hour, or rather more, and then rub the whole through a wire sieve.

  • You will put in rather more; for you once put in L500, which has been spent long ago.

  • One had been a Jacobite, and had drunk out half-a-dozen farms in honour of Charley over the water; Charley over the water was no very dangerous person, but Charley over the wine was rather more ruinous.

  • Some readers may perhaps find it of slightly less general interest: if it is so, it is simply because its scope is rather more limited.

  • The Revue may be thought to offer almost equal opportunities, and to be capable of development out of its present chaotic state, but it is rather more restricted by the fact that it has such a large public.

  • The only difference is that Lindsay is rather more limited in his range, if anything.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rather more" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowed myself; court life; earth shall; elderly lady; fiery darts; moral restraint; petals white; polite literature; rather broad; rather coarse; rather does; rather fancy; rather fine; rather firm; rather hard; rather high; rather large; rather like; rather more; rather short; rather small; rather stout; rather than; rather then; rather tough; rather wide