The phrase "a significant and unexpected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event, result, or finding that is both important and surprising.
Example: "The study revealed a significant and unexpected correlation between sleep patterns and productivity levels."
Alternatives: "a notable and surprising" or "an important and unforeseen".
If those results are confirmed, they would represent a significant and unexpected defeat for Hezbollah and its allies, Iran and Syria.
This is, on one level, a significant and unexpected shift by the Turkish government.
The 2015 index revealed a significant and unexpected uptick in suicide attacks by women in Nigeria, a phenomenon Pape and his students are investigating this summer.
With gas prices down, it said there was "a significant and unexpected reduction in coal burn by UK power stations" and the ability to predict future demand was "very poor".
Here we propose the subtelomeric core X and Y' could play a significant and unexpected role in the dynamic meta-stability of telomeric gene expression.
This hypothesis is supported by the results of a recent clinical trial designed to study the effects of folate supplementation on colon polyp prevention, which resulted in a significant and unexpected increase in the incidence of prostate cancer [ 12, 13].
In our case, we sought to determine whether miRNAs from different families and different syntenic blocks had any significant and unexpected functional associations.
This modest chemical change results in a very significant and unexpected shift in the selectivity of COX inhibition, creating a molecule that is a highly potent, slow, tight-binding inhibitor of COX-2 lacking significant COX-1 inhibitory activity.
Environment, anti-nuclear and constitutional reform campaigners welcomed the draft constitution because it gave voters more certainty about life after a yes vote, but warned it still left significant and unexpected loopholes.
Removing one group of intestinal parasites had significant, and unexpected, effects on the parasite community within an individual.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05115.010 One significant and unexpected zone of protection was discovered within the linker regions, a 'cold spot' comprising residues 218 237 of VPS34.
