Because, disappointingly, the world didn't end on Friday as per the Mayan prediction (fools, hysterics), none of us had any concrete excuse not to tune into the final of Strictly Come Dancing last night.
(I am toasting with coffee because, disappointingly, I am not a madman who starts tippling this early on a Sunday).
Because of disappointingly low response rates, an intensive tracing study was undertaken to try to assess whether non-response introduced irremediable bias; its results were not damning.
Did Labour perform disappointingly because its manifesto was perceived as too leftwing, the lesson of 1983?
I've said little about the games themselves until now because there is disappointingly little to say.
"My last date," Richard announces, "ended somewhat disappointingly, because I was not sufficiently direct in my communication.
A vaccine named Lymerix was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1998, briefly put on the market, and then withdrawn by the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, in 2002 because sales were disappointingly low.
In a statement, the Fed said it was acting because the recovery was "disappointingly slow," and it left the door open to even more purchases of government securities next year.
Nevertheless the number of future pensioners who will benefit looks set to be disappointingly low, because many workers are not covered by the new arrangements.The Bank has taken this lesson to heart.
Around four minutes after landing, you arrive at Hotel Kulusuk, which is unexpectedly like a hotel, with an affable young Danish manager called Jesper, an impressive fishy Arctic buffet, and rooms with a shower and a television and heating, so you're pleasantly reassured but disappointingly comfortable, because you realise this doesn't quite make you Captain Oates.
Response rates in studies inquiring into policies are often disappointingly low, because in general practitioners give priority to direct care rather than to participating in research.
