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Maybe the concept came to you in a flash, the proverbial bolt out of the blue.
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Lisburn councillor Stephen Martin said the news had "come as a bolt out of the blue".
BBC: Coca-Cola bottling plant
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Redundant worker Lanza Martineta said the news he was losing his job came as a "bolt out of the blue".
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The plan to close a Merseyside aircraft parts factory has come as "a bolt out of the blue", according to a local MP.
BBC: George Howarth
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Mr Howarth said the plant had been recruiting "within the last 12 months, so it's a bit of a bolt out of the blue".
BBC: George Howarth
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"It hit me like a bolt out of the blue, " he recalls: A franchise system would be a way to maintain standards and improve the supply chain.
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They added that the proposals, which they described as "a bolt out of the blue", would hurt small businesses and employee share-ownership schemes, as well as discouraging risk-taking by venture capital firms vital to economic growth.
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Cumbes, who also sits on the executive committee of the ECB, refuted suggestions from Modi that the ECB had been warned that the tournament might have an early start, calling it a "bolt out of the blue", though he did admit "our system is cluttered to death with fixtures".
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