Late in the evening, loading dinner-party dishes into the dishwasher, she remarked to Seth that it was hardly surprising that Joey should be confused about the distinction between children and adults his own mother seemed to suffer from some confusion about which of the two she was.
Given the off-field turmoil that has surrounded the club, it was hardly surprising that they got off to a nervy and disorganised start.
Ronaldo stepped up to slam home a routine penalty but it was hardly surprising that Bolton's dismayed fans were soon singing "1-0 to the referee".
And, given all the errors, it was hardly surprising that frustration would kick-in at some point, a fact illustrated when Wasps' England prop Tim Payne and Gloucester number eight Brett Deacon traded blows.
It was hardly a surprise that when Adrian Fenty lost his mayoral re-election bid, Rhee went down with him.
Mega-philanthropist and billionaire Ted Turner, who displayed such comfort with being on stage and with the subject that it was hardly necessary for him to sit up straight, over-shared that men are too testosterone-jacked to stay in any power positions at all.
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The start-up's 27-year-old co-founder, Mike Boxleiter, said he was "devastated" when it became clear that the app was making hardly any money.
It was an impressive feat, given that Ms Morrison was hardly unknown: she won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993.
It would be so much better if it was a board that had hardly any shareholders so that when somebody suggested that they could save the shareholders some money by accelerating the dividend, they would have been more focused on important things like figuring how that would affect bonus computations.
FCC, which employs around 600 drivers, said it was disappointed that there would be hardly any Great Northern trains on Remembrance Sunday.
While that was certainly the genesis of the problem, it hardly gets to the heart of a problem that seems to speak more to culture than execution.
This year, gay marriage has hardly been the issue that it was two years ago, but it has started making a comeback thanks to New Jersey's Supreme Court.
In 1948, Campanella joined Robinson on the Dodgers. (President Truman integrated the Armed Forces the same year.) It was hardly fair, to put it mildly, that so much pressure was exerted on one man.
The years past and the Goal Poster became such a familiar presence that I hardly even noticed it was there.
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The excuse that it was worse in the 1970s hardly inspires confidence.
It was around that time that the word "greenmail" gained currency, and if Mr. Steinberg was hardly the only beneficiary, he was among the most feared personalities in corporate America.
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"The lukewarm economic data was hardly a catalyst for further gains, and it appears that sentiment is really quite weak, " said Zhou Xu, analyst at Nanjing Securities.
'Brought to Singapore by Chinese immigrants, it was changed by Indians using Malaysian ingredients into a dish that would hardly be recognisable in China.
Mahmoud told me that his relationship with the bank was hardly worth it, considering the problems it has caused him.
It was perhaps more about passing out apples and oranges and pears that could hardly be seen as exact equals.
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It was not the miles of palm-fringed, white sand or the ludicrously blue sea that stunned me the Caribbean is littered with beaches fit for postcards it was the fact that there was virtually no development in any direction and hardly a soul in sight.
It is worth remembering that the epicentre of the 2008 disaster was American property, hardly a free market undistorted by government.
Students should take cheer that the job market is better than it was last year, though it could hardly have been worse.
In the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that Mr Saakashvili's latest peace plan, offering Abkhazia unlimited autonomy, was dismissed as propaganda by the Abkhaz.
The UK would suddenly be free to set its own agenda again and would hardly be more isolated than it was in the 1950s and 1960s, which happened to be years that older Britons remember with particular fondness.
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It seems that BA's core shareholders support him: the share price hardly moved when the strike was announced.
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It was almost a century before an enterprising Frenchman actually traveled to the site in 1889 and found that there were hardly even any hills there.
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President Isaias said in July 1998 that this was not a matter of boundaries but of national pride and territorial integrity - it is hardly surprising the two sides have been unable to agree on a peace process.
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