Sentence examples for hardly exceptional from inspiring English sources

Though A-3-type visas are just a small portion of the total employment visas issued by the government (1,200 have been issued in recent years), Richard's plight is hardly exceptional, except in the sense that it actually came to public light.

And in this, India is hardly exceptional.

Alas, the company is hardly exceptional in this regard.

Lee's meetings with these Chinese were hardly exceptional.

It was an unpleasant episode, but hardly exceptional.

His architect, John C. Burne, was known for designing decent-looking but hardly exceptional row and apartment buildings.

Much is made of the fact that women are the creators of these carpets, though this is hardly an exceptional circumstance.

The tennis was excellent, with grinding points won by both men, but here's the thing: compared to what tennis fans had watched over the past year or two, it hardly seemed exceptional.

The state of Pakistan, in this context, is an interesting, but hardly an exceptional case.

This hardly seems an exceptional scene, but it may be increasingly rare, and radical, for families today.

As British judges have acknowledged, the record eight years that Qatada has been detained without charge over the past 11 years has been exceptional and "hardly acceptable".