Example sentences of "rather [det] [conj] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument .
2 In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded .
3 Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers .
4 This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure .
5 I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions .
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