One finding which was not surprising was the fact that 81% of US respondents indicated posts from their friends directly influenced their purchase decision.
Many investors were scared out of the market in August, which was not surprising.
Ajmal Shahzad seemed to be more dangerous with the older ball in fresher conditions than he was with the newer ball in overcast skies which was a bit surprising.
Before Lincoln's match at Stockport, the first of the eight-game run, I was interviewed for Late Kick Off and was uncharacteristically pessimistic about the Imps' prospects for the rest of the campaign, which was upsetting and surprising to some.
Which is why it was surprising to hear that the show is being pressured by a sponsor to have the PSA and any American Idol association with it removed.
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However, our focus is on medical care ratio, which was the main driver of a surprising double-digit jump in operating earnings, in Q3 2012.
The margin by which Kosovars opted for sweet reason was surprising.
However, not many expected Andy Robinson's men to extend their four-match unbeaten run with a victory over the world's number one-ranked side and so it proved, although the ease with which southern hemisphere behemoths secured the win was surprising.
It was a surprising step for the court, which normally tries to find a way to decide cases without delving into constitutional issues if it can.
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The degree to which this document hammers at Putin was, to me, very surprising.
But the most recent polls show a very tight race basically was deadlocked between Giuliani and McCain, which is a little surprising to people.
That these three geese were related to Canada geese was also not that surprising, at least for the nene, which traditional classification had pointed in that direction.
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The charity Action Research, which has funded research into the benefits of folic acid, said the FSA decision was surprising.
Which is more surprising the numbers here or the fact that the study was done by IBM, by far the strongest IT player in financial services?
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All of which made more surprising the central allegation of the hostage-takers: that the United States was plotting to destroy their revolution, assassinate Khomeini and restore the Shah to the throne.
Yet Capellas arguably made a more surprising leap in 1999 when he was named chief executive of Compaq Computer , which later merged with HP (nyse: HWQ - news - people ).
Surprising as it may sound now, in the 1980s there was considerable debate over which of the two great tech enclaves, Boston's Rte. 128 and Silicon Valley, would triumph.
Less surprising was a brief by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, which marshaled the socioeconomic evidence it thinks is needed to bolster the case.
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