Ms. Mearns is not yet back to peak condition after her long injury — her shoulders seem even more unusually high than before, her backbends less rich.
Heating oil inventories in the Northeast were unusually low before the cold snap.
It said temperatures were unusually warm before Christmas and very cold in early spring.
While widely anticipated, the announcement of the move came, unusually, even before the Off Broadway reviews were published.
Torre had seemed unusually tense before the game, his words coming quickly, squeezed through a taut voice.
Indonesian transport minister Ignasius Jonan said this week that the plane climbed unusually fast before stalling and plunging into the sea.
China seems to feel unusually bold before the Summer Olympics, seen here as a curtain raiser for the nation's ascent to pre-eminence in the world.
Unusually, days before the announcement, McCain released a statement that all but openly campaigned for Mattis's appointment, calling the retired general "impressive" and an "extraordinary leader".
The warmest December on record gave shoppers little incentive to buy winter coats and jumpers and stores were unusually quiet before Christmas.
If the circumstances made Francisco Liriano feel unusually anxious before he faced the Oakland Athletics last Wednesday afternoon at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, he tried not to let on.
