It is no longer odd to see Saudi clerks, receptionists or salespeople.
No less odd, Prison Service staff are reported to have predicted the result as soon as the home secretary announced that in-house bids were to be allowed nearly two years ago.
No, the odd thing was how few businesspeople I talked to expressed enthusiasm for Mitt Romney.
Local people described the family as quiet and respectable middle-class Catholics with no history of odd or criminal behaviour.
It will no doubt seem odd to some readers and viewers that so many people could feel so keenly the death of someone they never met.
No wonder he developed odd notions about women (poor, soft, cleft creatures) or that he grew inward and self-examining.
No one thinks it odd if you like jazz and classical music: why can't we enjoy a range of fiction?
Sony's no stranger to the odd e-ink device, but its latest prototype creation isn't targeted at the bookworm, it's intended to educate.
Odd that no one talking about thalidomide and the FDA ever mentions how long ago the thalidomide tragedy occurred, or how different everything is now, especially with respect to it being a quite useful drug.
The striker, who scored six times during Aberdeen's successful Cup-Winners' Cup run in 1983 and netted twice in just four appearances for Scotland, was no stranger to the odd underhand manoeuvre in his quest for goals.
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There seems no other reason for her odd behavior and slurred speech so much.
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The government built the first school only a year ago, so most of Saridal's 400-odd residents have no formal education.
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Odd coincidence, no doubt--except that it's happened before.
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Halloween in the United States is an increasingly odd holiday, no longer child's play, but on this evening I was thinking about another holiday, this one official, that is coming up this week: Veterans Day.
After the laughter died down, the Bush administration's chief advocate, Solicitor General Paul Clement, rose to defend the law, observing that candidate Davis's challenge is odd since he has no limits on what he can spend.
Mr Vladi's current catalogue features some 400 islands (and the odd peninsula: he is no purist).
"Indian fusion usually involves sitar, tabla or vocals, and it was odd to me that almost no one was using the dhol, " he said.
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There's no denying that it's pretty odd at first -- we don't know about you, but we've never dreamt of titling our mouse all over the place, and even if we did we probably would have envisioned the movement to actually impact the navigating experience in some shape or form.
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Which is why it seems supremely odd, and stupid, that no candidate is courting small business.
When economic reforms began 20-odd years ago, China had no insurance industry to speak of.
But some justices said that led to an odd result in which states providing no recognition to gay couples would have greater justification in denying them marriage rights.
No reason has ever been offered for this odd procedure, but Charles Stanley says that such a large order would not have been accepted from an unknown client.
The Cost understandably finds the band harboring more commercial ambitions than usual, even re-casting a pair of Swell Season songs as radio-friendly mid-tempo ballads, but no one involved has forgotten Hansard's odd ability to sound sweetly romantic, big-hearted, self-deprecating and emotionally stunted at the same time.
And no less than in Europe, local politics fosters odd alliances.
For example, the leaders were willing to move to majority voting in around half of the 50-odd areas where France believed unanimity need no longer be essential.
Mr Forlines shows no sign of cutting back on the 60-odd hours he works each week, much of it spent zipping from branch to branch in a Buick equipped with a radar detector.
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