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Could there be a more startling contrast?

If this half-episode felt essentially like a smaller slice of the original three, without live performers, Episode 5 was a more startling departure.

Not since the All Blacks led France 24-10 with 35 minutes left in the 1999 World Cup has there been a more startling turnaround.

In many ways the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America is a more startling development in the year-long credit crunch than the collapse of Lehman.

Wealthy counties like Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire also have below-average rates of youthful drink and drug abuse, although not as low as London's.There is a more startling possibility: London represents the future.

This is a more startling observation than the obesity epidemic: Many people maintain the same weight, year-in and year-out, without even trying.

For all the reaction that deluged Twitter — a "veritable technology 21-gun salute" as the Times put it — the Chinese reaction was, perhaps, a more startling measure of his reach.

Surely the technology could be used to generate a more startling experience.

A decade on there's yet to appear a more startling example of the excesses of the original Internet bubble than JDS Uniphase's July 2000 acquisition of rival fiber-optic firm SDL.

A more startling statistic is that it is now 324 minutes since Australia conceded a try – to England's Josh Charnley in the opening game of the tournament.

Francis X. Clines THE SOUTH AN UNUSUAL SWITCH -- For years, Democrats in South Carolina have stood before cameras to announce their conversion to the Republican Party, but this week, there was a far more startling switch: Two moderate Republican state representatives said they were becoming Democrats, the first Republicans to do so in the state since the end of Reconstruction.