Sentence examples for not exactly unexpected from inspiring English sources

I was forty-one, so it was not exactly unexpected.

However, it was dismissed by Lansley's aides as "not exactly unexpected".

In terms of pitching, the great performances are not exactly unexpected, even if they will be difficult to keep up.

Not exactly unexpected, it foresees a supervisor with real executive power and the ability to force terms on disputing governments in a crisis.

Since Mr Rumsfeld himself had chaired the panel, in all but the final stages of its work, his verdict was not exactly unexpected.

That is not exactly unexpected, and I would have been amazed if someone called it with the little information the teaser post provided.

This development wasn't exactly unexpected.

This wasn't exactly unexpected news: Geithner and Larry Summers had been the clear frontrunners for the job.

Avenue C and Red Hook are close to the water, so what happened there wasn't exactly unexpected.

Friday's announcement wasn't exactly unexpected, as numerous signs over the past few months have spelled trouble for the program.

If the fluky breakout successes for this kind of music have arrived in a trickle -- Arrested Development in the early 90's, Maxwell in 1996, Erykah Badu in 1997 (Lauryn Hill's success in 1998 wasn't exactly unexpected) -- now seems like the moment for the floodgates to open.