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01. When I was young, I enjoyed living in the big city, but since I've been a father, I'd [rather] live in a smaller place.
02. I ride my bike to work, [rather] than take my car because it is better for the environment.
03. [Rather] than go to work, and leave my sick daughter at home alone, I took the day off.
04. It is better to try to figure out the meaning of new vocabulary by looking at it in context, [rather] than always simply looking it up in the dictionary.
05. I would [rather] quit my job than take a cut in pay.
06. The weather was [rather] hot at the beach today.
07. The concert was pretty good, but I found it [rather] expensive at £50 per ticket.
08. Would you [rather] have fish or chicken for supper tonight?
09. Jimmy Buffet sang, "I'd [rather] die while I'm living than live while I'm dead."
10. Ray Prince once said that work is only work if you'd [rather] be doing something else.
11. Marly would [rather] play on a losing team with his friends than on a winning team with kids he doesn't know.
12. An Arab proverb advises, "Ask the experienced [rather] than the learned."
13. In December of 1945, Prince Fumimaro Konoe, former Japanese Prime Minister, committed suicide [rather] than face war crimes charges.
14. Studies show that the orangutan is less social than the other primates, living a [rather] solitary life in the wild.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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