It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

For her the idea that birds have come from dinosaurs is just common knowledge and there's nothing surprising in that at all."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

But the image is surprising because he is standing on a crowded street in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The flowers are mostly gone. It is not surprising that some people are sad in winter.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

That desire to live forever in a record book may not seem very surprising.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

He noted another surprising observation in the monkeys on a restricted diet.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The fact that Americans would be tired of having their sons and daughters at risk and in battle is not surprising,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The surprising findings have shown a three percent increase in noncardia gastric cancer which affects the lower area of the stomach.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"We are surrounded by countries with very tough laws, while we are very weak, so it is not surprising while many terrorists from other countries found their hotbed in Indonesia,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

lead author Matthew During of Ohio State University, described what happened after just three weeks, "And what was surprising to us was that the animals in the enriched environment, the cancers are 40 percent smaller" "When we moved that enrichment to six weeks,now, the cancers were approximately a dramatic effect,and not only that, but 17 percent of those animals had no tumors whatsoever."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14