It is not normal - not even for the vast majority of other successful musicians - to get asked to write a ballet for one of the world's most revered dance companies, having never written one before, or shown any real interest in the art form.
And people are trying to keep a normal way of life here but it's not normal, it's not business as usual here.
Zero interest rates are not normal, and the economy will not be able to get back to normal until the Fed gets monetary policy back to normal.
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Radiation levels there are still normal and not harmful to human health, a ministry spokeswoman said.
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This morning, in the half light of dawn, the surf seems a little higher than normal but not much higher.
While women's magazines talk about kicking the holiday blues, experts note that this kind of depression is normal, not clinical.
The newer upstarts are creating what amounts to an entirely new business: fibre-optics not copper, the Internet not normal telephony, dealing with customers not regulators.
The wicket here is a bit different to normal, not quite as true as we have faced before but it's still a very good pitch and a rewarding one for the bowlers if they get it in the right areas.
But with reading e-mail on our smartphone or tablet becoming the New Normal , not the exception, Roth suggests what you actually need is an e-mail signature for the increasingly-special cases when you are actually desk-bound, reading Microsoft Outlook.
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But normal is not always good.
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' Hypomanics are not crazy, but 'normal' is not the first word that comes to mind when describing them.
But the 29-year-old New Yorker says the premium you pay for the Express does not represent value for money, with no more legroom than a normal train and not even a complimentary coffee or tea.
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It is a six-monthly handing over of the baton that elicits no excitement at all in normal circumstances, but these days the circumstances are not quite normal.
People only protest when they are frustrated and the normal processes are not working.
And a big chunk of pay goes to normal employees, not masters of the universe.
Admittedly, most normal people are not plugged into the arcana of retirement investing.
These are not normal times and the American economy is under pressure like never before.
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Normal people are not going to hop on BitTorrent and download a multi-terrabyte document dump.
Normal service was not restored to Ulster Bank customers until almost a month later on 16 July.
"The result is 1-1 and it is not normal to hit the post three times, " he said.
The NHS remains on red alert and normal services are not expected to resume until next week.
Certainly not normal computers, with parts and hard drives and Hertzes and Megabits and all that stuff.
"Operations are obviously not normal, but we have no concerns at this time, either security or financial, " he said.
In the end, Fama conceded that returns were not normal but insisted that the market portfolio was still unbeatable.
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My vision of where I wanted to go in life was not normal.
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"The level of virulence of this storm is not normal, " said Diego Santilli, the city's environment minister, according to Telam.
Some fifty years later, it is well settled that the distribution of investment returns is not normal (in a Gaussian sense).
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