This is hardly surprising. One hopes that the Iranian government s announcement to its own people reads roughly the same, in reverse, focusing on the important concessions that Iranian negotiators have won.

In a sense, this is hardly surprising. After all, the twenty five member states of the European Union alone employ hundreds of ministers between them and even more if junior ministers are included.

The site also solicited advice on which car to convert. The Toyota Corolla was the first choice hardly surprising since it is the leading car model in Finland (with 7 of the market).

It is therefore hardly surprising that this discouraging trend played a major role in the failure to agree on a disarmament and non proliferation section in the world summit outcome document (resolution 60 1).

So pressure outside the US and Britain to put the hedge fund industry on a tighter regulatory leash is hardly surprising. The Germans, for example, want to reduce risk by forcing hedge funds to adhere to stricter reporting requirements.

DR Yeah, surprising.

This is surprising.

60 nearly, yet these hardly tangible, hardly better than harlots, can still stir me.

It hardly happens.

This may be surprising.

That's not so surprising.

But here's what's surprising.

That is not surprising.

While measures adapted in the depths of the crisis massive fiscal and monetary stimuli were effective in placing a bottom under the free fall, they have been ineffective in sparking meaningful recovery. That should hardly be surprising in an era of balance sheet repair.

It may be a little surprising how many things there are, but it's not surprising what they are.

I can hardly walk.

She hardly speaks English.

So this is very surprising.

I can hardly hear you.

It is hardly worth discussing.

And he said, Hardly anything.

They hardly ever make mistakes.

She can hardly speak Japanese.

Kate can hardly speak Chinese.

I could hardly hear him.

These are hardly encouraging signs.

For you, that might be surprising.

This was a completely surprising result.

Hardly anyone in South America did.

And I just simply say, Hardly.

Kate hardly ever celebrates her birthday.

I can hardly stand his behavior.

He hardly ever opens a book.

I could hardly keep from laughing.

And what I found was quite surprising.

So the hyperbole is not actually surprising.

And here are the most surprising results.

It was all more and more surprising.

This finding is again not entirely surprising.

Hardly appropriate at this moment in time.

I can hardly see without my glasses.

I can hardly understand what he says.

There was hardly anyone in the room.

Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness

What the Starrs did next, though, was surprising.