Sentence examples for surprising period from inspiring English sources

Their numbers suggest that, despite all that financial innovation, recent years have seen a surprising period of quiet at least until the current crash.Sowing the stormThe incidence of crashes is only one measure of risk, however: their severity also matters.

This is complicated by the nature of disease, which – as described above – is characterized by periods of rapid decline and spontaneous periodic improvement, as well as surprising periods of stability.

This is not surprising; the period of severe stress lasted longer than several days or even several weeks.

The French director Patrice Chéreau has conjured up a surprising, intensely engrossing period drama from Conrad's very long short story "The Return".

In this light, it is not surprising that the period from the 1580s to the 1620s also witnessed a surge of persecutions for witchcraft in Germany (mainly in the southwest and Bavaria).

From the appearance of iron weaponry in quantity during late antiquity until the fall of Rome, the means with which war was waged and the manner in which it was conducted displayed many enduring characteristics that gave the period surprising unity.

That's not surprising given the period we're in.

The bank still managed to post a profit for the period, surprising analysts who had predicted a loss.

This implicit refusal to grant sensory information and affective processing the power to catalyze and inform serious reflection is not new; neither is the attribution of popular landscape aesthetics to the elite society of a limited culture and historical period surprising, given the current preponderance of post-modernist sensibilities.

I suppose it's not all that surprising, since this period roughly matches up with the press suddenly waking up to its responsibility to vet both candidates equally (call it the post-Matt Lauer era).

It is therefore surprising that the period of ferric cyanide reduction resulted not only in higher potential but also in a higher current generation.