The phrase "a pretty surprising" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when describing something that is unexpectedly surprising, but it typically requires a noun to follow it for clarity.
Example: "The results of the experiment were a pretty surprising outcome for the researchers."
Alternatives: "quite surprising" or "fairly surprising".
That is a pretty surprising majority, considering the dish's tremendous status-symbol appeal.
Hi! My charity song, Come Home (Cardinal Pell), has had a pretty surprising impact in Australia.
Unable as I am to place myself in the headspace of a great athlete, that's a pretty surprising disintegration.
52nd over: South Africa 148-5 (Rudolph 40, Duminy 24) Trott replaces Swann, a pretty surprising move but one that almost produces a wicket.
"It was really eye-opening…we didn't expect that," says Shah. "That's a pretty surprising number".
We're really proud of who the mole is, that's a pretty surprising twist but it's even bigger than that".
iPhone / iPad This is pretty surprising: a photo-sharing app from Coca-Cola, with a clean and stylish design, and the ability to share shots out to Facebook or Twitter, as well as Coke's own Happy Places community.
I think it would be pretty surprising to a lot of people: What was he thinking?" He scrunched up his face and shoulders.
Although the dataset is incomplete, districts that did provide even anecdotal or partial data helped paint a picture that was generally pretty surprising.
Animals could have made the holes, Blackwell acknowledges, but "it would be pretty surprising to have an animal make them in such a straight line".
Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said that he was frustrated by the lack of teamworking at the top: "While the BBC is a fantastic organisation and does great journalism, there has been in some part a lack of professional camaraderie and a lack of collegiate behaviour which I find pretty surprising".
