Sentence examples for surprise improvement from inspiring English sources

10.12am BST UK trade data better than expected Some good economic news in the UK: Britain's trade deficit was smaller than expected in July, thanks to a surprise improvement in trade with countries outside the EU. Britain's deficit of goods and services was recorded at £1.5bn in July.

Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: "Against a recent run of mixed economic data, a surprise improvement in April's Cips services survey provides reassurance that a decent economic expansion is still on track".

To Lowry's surprise, his improvement did not thrill Margerie.

In Space Seed, Khan, a eugenically-engineered superman cryogenically frozen since the 1990s, declares, "I am surprised how little improvement there has been in human evolution.

Manuel said that he was pleasantly surprised with the improvement in Thole's fielding and that he always thought Thole could hit.

Education officials said they were not surprised that the improvement was less pronounced this year; the test is only three years old, and a sharp increase in scores is typical in the second year of a test, they said.

Some Web owners might have been surprised at the improvement.

Renault team boss Eric Boullier went to visit Kubica in Italy after Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix and reported that the doctors were pleasantly surprised by the improvement in his condition.

"I was so surprised about the improvement in her look, just a few weeks after she started eating those packets".

Without surprise, the best performance improvement is attained with data corrupted by cafeteria noise.

"We knew that access had improved, but what surprised us was the improvement in graduation, which happened in all of the countries that we studied," she pointed out.