Sentence examples for fairly startling from inspiring English sources

A fairly startling thought.

Another day another small victory for football against the enemy – albeit one with some fairly startling revelations along the way.

Even by the standards of a music industry that's been pumping out reissues and box sets for more than 30 years, there's something fairly startling about the current glut of super-deluxe box sets: their size, their contents, their price.

This was Rooney's 116th game, making him the most capped outfield player in England's history, but it was still fairly startling to hear Allardyce saying he had given him carte blanche to play where he wanted.

Their projections are fairly startling: And to the extent that we believe advanced countries will suffer from the burden of large elderly populations, France will suffer less: Germany should enjoy its hegemony while it lasts; Europe's future, such as it is, may belong to France.

Since the publication at the end of the summer of a book by Thilo Sarrazin, "Germany Does Away With Itself," which argues with a biologically and genetically based thesis that the nation is imploding as a result of millions of immigrants from Islamic countries, a fairly startling series of indicators has become public.

It's pretty startling stuff.

"What has become apparent is there's a fairly dramatic and startling increase in pertussis in children in the seven- to 10-year-old age group," said H Cody Meissner, a pediatrician from Tufts University School of Medicine who did not take part in the study.

Although the plot is fairly outlandish, the narrative comes with startling developments and nicely tricky reversals.

Although this fairly small database did not lead to any startling new discoveries, it illustrates how large amounts of chemical data can be compressed and analyzed effectively and cheaply with scalability to much larger systems.

That idea may seem fairly tame, but in exploring it Fernández-Armesto makes some startling connections.