Sentence examples for rather a surprising from inspiring English sources

Given the context, the fact that the concert's first sound comes from the oud, an Arabic instrument, might have proved rather a surprising awakening.

This entry offers a glimpse of a rather surprising habit of Roth's, considering his fame: often, when he reads something he admires, he sends a letter to the writer, who is just as often a total stranger.

The Yankees managed only three hits off Verlander and have now scored only 21 runs in eight postseason games, a rather surprising figure for a team that lead baseball with 804 runs.

The paper unveils also the existence of an instantaneous frequency associated with the master response characterized by intermittency: a rather surprising result for a linear autonomous system.

It does all look like a rather surprising agenda for a left-of-centre political leader to pursue - in essence a strategy of more markets and less government.

It was a rather surprising report that a beating heart could be regenerated using decellularized (meaning decellularized enzymatically by perfusion) rat hearts that were subsequently injected with neonatal cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells [ 22].

In a rather surprising move, he indicated that rather than intensifying state controls, the crisis would force Russia to liberalise and to develop a more dynamic small and medium business sector by removing the deadweight of the bureaucracy.

In a rather surprising development, Apple and IBM announced an alliance in 1991.

It was a game that capped off a rather surprising run.

And the DCPS made contact right back in a rather surprising way: The couple received an e-mail from Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

A rather surprising (and useful) fact is that a min-hash collision is an unbiased estimator of the Jaccard similarity: i.e. the probability to select as the minimum feature indicator a non-null feature that belongs to both x and z is exactly the fraction of features that x and z have in common over the total number of non-null features of x and z.