Their answer was surprising in two ways.
Alito's reaction was surprising in two respects: first, as countless commentators have pointed out, as a breach of protocol, and second, because the president's criticism of the Court was fairly mild.
These results are surprising in two aspects.
Our results were surprising in two ways; first, cross-housed birds showed clear changes in tuning that were greater in canaries than in zebra finches; and second, these changes resulted in narrower tuning in both species.
The results are surprising in two ways.
This observation was surprising in two ways.
This was surprising in one way, since the man in question was a senior official of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank.
The discovery of the pornography, first reported by Reuters, may not be surprising in a collection of five computers, 10 hard drives and dozens of thumb drives and CDs whose age and past ownership is not known.
While the court has from time to time carried decisions over from one term to the next, that is unusual and would be surprising in this case, which received three days of oral arguments three months ago and is considered the most important case to come before the court in more than a decade.
Moreover, the positions taken by one group could be surprising; in Venezuela in the 1840s, for instance, it was conservatives who supported free trade with the exterior, a stance that elsewhere was one of the classic tenets of liberalism.
