Taipei also offers a surprising number of pleasant spots to walk off all that good food.
I've met a surprising number of voters who say they can't make up their minds.
But Mr Friedman appears to take himself seriously, and so do a surprising number of Texans.
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Nevertheless, the world of information technology does seem to contain a surprising number of joint bosses.
And a surprising number of tech companies want to be in the business of largely obscure books.
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All of them responded to The Economist's inquiries, whereas a surprising number of British ministers rebuffed them.
They wired the game together for the first time and they filled in a surprising number of blanks.
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But many share the left's sense of human vulnerability, and a surprising number have a weakness for psychobabble.
The data, she said, showed a surprising number of children were being injured, many of them seriously, by guns.
Like a surprising number of people here, he spent many years in Britain.
But Britain is a tough, competitive, unequal place, disdainful of conformity and deeply conservative about a surprising number of things.
The floods have affected a surprising number of new homes, which suggests another possible culprit: poor planning on the part of local authorities.
Like a surprising number of people in Oklahoma, Shelley didn't have an underground tornado shelter, so he jumped in his car and took off.
Montrose, CO is the main gateway, and has a surprising number of nonstop flights: from Chicago, Oakland, Atlanta, Dallas and as far as Newark.
Deference, the coping mechanism now spurned in Britain, lives on in a surprising number of places, happily co-existing with a generalised contempt for politicians.
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There are a surprising number of companies and organizations currently invested in the space, be it through pre-fabricated models, kits or open-source, downloadable plans.
But a surprising number of Democrats abstained or voted against the bill (eight in total) leaving the number voting for cloture at 52, eight votes short.
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He even quietly condoned a write-in effort on his own behalf in the New Hampshire primary, which garnered a surprising number of votes and sent his stock upward.
Nita was to learn that the recent checkup, the clean bill of health, cropped up in a surprising number of the sudden-death stories that she was now presented with.
Despite this, there are a surprising number of counter-examples.
The security of social media platforms will continue to be a huge concern, even as a surprising number of consumers and professionals remain blissfully unaware of the implications of sharing their thoughts, photos, and videos online.
Yet a surprising number have turned up.
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While most of the public dialogue around Miller is led by male fans, a surprising number of her projects focus on women, particularly on creating a space for women in male-dominated retail like motorcycle gear and stand-up paddle boards.
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And a surprising number are cousins.
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Of course, if you want to do it at any serious scale, you need to have at least a few million dollars in spare cash lying around, but it turns out, a surprising number of people do have that kind of play money.
When you receive your W-2 for 2012, pay attention to a surprising new number on the form, especially if you are an upper-income-bracket taxpayer.
But in the midst of that wiretapping bonanza, a more surprising figure is the number of cases in which law enforcement encountered encryption as a barrier: one.
So it is not surprising that a growing number of those in the college game have made much the same calculation.
Advisers to the well-heeled say 'wealth migration'--taking the money and running--is behind a surprising drop in the number of Bay Area millionaires.
The researchers have made a number of surprising discoveries.
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