The campaign evidently felt a need for a big surprise at the climactic moment of the campaign and then let it be too much of a surprise.
"It was a really big hit and a very big surprise to me, " she says.
"So it's kind of a big turnaround, it's a big surprise now with him going on 'Oprah' and supposedly admitting to doping during his career, which of course he's always denied, " Andreu said.
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The report has a reputation for often coming in with a big surprise in one direction or the other that creates a dramatic market response.
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He said it was a "big surprise" that such a slick heist been possible -- but pointed the finger at organized crime.
The election of Mr Serwotka, a hitherto unknown benefits agency worker and fast-talking union official in Leeds, was a big surprise.
But if a portion of the voters decide close to the deadline that they prefer Sally Field, that could be a big surprise.
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The only surprise that I had on election night was that there was not a really big surprise.
Mr. BENOIT: Everybody's been talking about this is south Louisiana, and for it to be sprung up on everybody like it was a big surprise, it just kills me, you know, 'cause I know that this was not a surprise.
Since new jobs are frequently the main reason people move, the story wasn't a big surprise.
We know that the financial markets refuse to function normally, which is a big surprise.
It was not a big surprise, but even so, it was a positive report for sure.
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But given the compelling value proposition for customers, this growth is not a big surprise.
"It was a big surprise for all of us, " Israeli Minister of Immigration Yuli Tamir told CNN.
But unless there's a big surprise in the earnings, don't expect much more than yawns on Wall Street.
Robert Traynham, in the fight for the Republican leadership positions in the Senate there's been a big surprise.
Still, growth would be a big surprise, and Pravachol's patent expires in 2006.
"To beat Andy that easy was a big surprise, for sure, " Wawrinka said.
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It should not come as a big surprise to anyone that Facebook collects and archives massive amounts of data.
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Of course, if Apple plans a big surprise, they wouldn't admit it now.
However, there was a big upward surprise in France's GDP, which expanded by 0.2% in the fourth quarter compared with the third.
So perhaps it's not a big surprise that one corporate titan is now trying an age-old marketing ploy aimed at female drivers.
Not a big surprise to anyone in the Northeast now struggling with power, communications and travel issues, among other miseries, but noteworthy nonetheless.
Nominal retail sales growth posted a big upside surprise in September, rising 14.2 percent year over year compared with 13.2 percent in August.
This will come as a big surprise to Malaysia's Central Bank and the many foreign (and, for that matter, domestic) banks in Malaysia.
The move was not a big surprise to the market place, but it did prompt more strong long liquidation pressure in the futures market.
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This came as a big surprise to those of us who assumed such events were produced by natural collisions of constantly shifting Earth tectonic plates.
Given that these Senns are so easy to drive, it shouldn't come as a big surprise that all the smartphones tested came off pretty well.
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