Thus, it was of little surprise to find them back in the promotion hunt their first season after relegation.
The news may come as little surprise to Sunshine State Republicans who watched him campaign for Obama's re-election and speak at the Democratic National Convention.
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That this has happened will be of little surprise to those who know the left - and fellow travellers in the Labour Party have never been short of their own internal divisions and squabbles.
Which should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with game theory, a tool used to analyse the cold war's arms race and a favourite, perhaps not coincidentally, of Europe's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy.
In fact, he's made enough grim remarks that when Cisco reports earnings Tuesday, it will take very little good news to surprise investors.
That's why reports on Monday that Vodafone was exploring a bid to buy T-Mobile U.K. , the British mobile network unit belonging to Deutsche Telekom , came as little surprise.
But France were starting to look ominous and it was little surprise that they took the lead on 72 minutes with Anelka's shot deflecting off St Ledger and past Given.
Alvaro Negredo, who had played just 30 minutes at the tournament as a substitute in Spain's 1-0 group-stage win over Croatia, did little to justify Del Bosque's surprise decision to name him to the starting lineup.
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It is little surprise that UBS is looking to cut various parts of its fixed-income trading desk over the coming quarters.
When England began their chase, Ian Bell made a fairly confident start but Matt Prior never looked comfortable and it came as little surprise when he edged Munaf Patel to Sehwag at slip in the fourth over.
That Democrats voiced little opposition to Paulson's nomination came as no surprise to many observers, given his technical qualifications for the job.
So it comes as little surprise that fund managers are paying money to find out if anyone is listening in on their super-secret trading activity.
It's no surprise old-line companies saw little incentive to upgrade equipment.
Little surprise Stilwell boss Landon Rowland has been known to joke that life would be easier if his chief investment were in DST and not Janus.
It may surprise you to learn that Wall Street has wasted precious little time publicly defending itself after the 2008 market meltdown and taxpayer bailout.
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One slight surprise is that coastal elites actually appear to be a little more generous than those in fly-over country, in that they spend nearly 30% more on gifts.
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The surprise to the market place on this matter would be little or no progress achieved at the meeting, which could likely rally the precious metals and pressure the Euro currency.
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So it was no surprise to hear a report from the kitchen that the little plastic knob on the speed switch had finally bit the dust or flour as the case may be.
None of this should come as a surprise: bombing has been tried in the past, to little effect.
And the fact that I happen to have become Bishop and Archbishop is a kind of a little bit of a surprise really, I suppose.
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He had to save a break point in his opening service game and it came as little surprise when he was broken at 1-2, completing a disastrous game with a double fault.
But, to my surprise, each time I walked through the garden, I walked a little more slowly.
But feigning surprise at found money when the IRS sends it back to you makes little sense.
Arsenal looked like they had a new lease of life from the side that started the 1-1 draw so lethargically at the weekend and it was little surprise when they went in front through Diaby, on his return to the side.
It is of little surprise, however, that it was both Russia and China that joined to veto the resolution.
The surprise to me is that the guidance for the fourth quarter is in fact a little bit more negative than I had expected.
With drifts reported to be tens of feet deep on some hills in north Wales, Mr Bailey said it was of little surprise that they were hearing of huge losses on many farms.
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To Dr Warren's surprise, the device was at first rejected by aviation authorities as having "little immediate direct use in civil aircraft" while pilots described it as a "Big Brother" spying on their actions.
Alerted by the disruption caused to all air traffic by the Iceland volcano dust explosion in April 2010 to the power of using social media to communicate with frustrated passengers, KLM started intercepting their customers' Tweets and Facebook remarks and dreaming up little surprise, individualised gifts or events - when, at least, some of them travel.
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