Sentence examples for not overly surprising from inspiring English sources

While the frankness is welcome, the content is not overly surprising.

The women displayed a hostile attitude, one US official said, which was "not overly surprising considering that we had killed their husband or father".

Fletcher's decision was announced by the ECB chairman David Morgan, who said the departure was "not inevitable but not overly surprising" after a winter which began with a dismal Champions Trophy, continued with the 5-0 whinewash in the Ashes series and, after a surprise win in the Tri-nations series in Australia, a disastrously inept World Cup campaign.

While the 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 defeat of the 18-year-old Watson by the Italian qualifier Romina Sarina Oprandi was not overly surprising given that it was the US Open junior champion's first senior match at grand-slam level, Keothavong's 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 loss to Australia's world No74 Anastasia Rodionova was hugely disappointing because she led 4-0 in the final set only to tense up.

The move is not overly surprising.

So the outcome of yesterday's decision was perhaps not overly surprising.

To see a multi-month delay, therefore, isn't overly surprising, or particularly troubling.

Since the Olympics news broke Surrey Police Authority has decided to shelve its outsourcing plans - but that may not be overly surprising as the incoming chief constable had wanted the force to rethink the plans.

comm).. However since this is an isolated population, subject to regular population crashes [14], the absence of polymorphism in BMP15 in this population may not be overly surprising and further studies in other wild sheep populations are warranted.

Keeping these caveats in mind, it may not be overly surprising that point estimates of Nb and Ne for salmonid broodstocks vary considerably (Nb: 5 133; Ne = 15 690, with the exception of two populations having estimates much larger than these ranges but where it is evident that the supplementation deviated from realistic Nb /Ne for captive-breeding programs) (Table 4).

Not too surprising.