That would be a great surprise to Anthony Hopkins, Jan Morris or Dylan Thomas.
As any seasoned "Downton" viewer knows, no one knows how to execute a great surprise like Fellowes.
Professor Tim Peto, consultant in infectious diseases at the University of Oxford, said the original paper in Science came as a great surprise to experts.
There has been an almost constant stream of bad news from Japanese companies over the past few weeks, so it does not come as a great surprise that the recession in Japan is deepening.
But if you take out unusual items and look at underlying income, the performance is fairly flat - which isn't a great surprise, since the economies of the rich west in which Barclays operates are hardly booming.
With CEO pay increasing 27 times faster than worker pay since 1978 a substantially greater increase than the value of corporate equity as measured by the growth of the stock market during the same period and far more substantial than the measly 5.7 percent growth in employee wages over the same time frame the stellar profit numbers should not come as a great surprise to anyone.
Now that the news is out, however, she said it had been a "great surprise" when Prince William's office contacted her husband Jack in response to a letter the couple had sent.
These were a matter of great surprise and rather unbelievable for the people who had not only become used to the barbarism of those kings but also became their admirers.
So, it was with a great deal of surprise that Senator Chuck Grassley learned that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had child porn on his computer (for his pleasure, not as part of an investigation) but faced no legal consequences.
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Ross, controller of film and drama at Channel 4, said it was "a surprise and a great honour" to be recognised.
This is one heartless kid, so it's no great surprise when a bit later he steals a car and shoots the woman who screams for him to stop.
When we met with Finnish startup Aava Mobile today, they pulled out the same old prototype phone... then, to our great surprise, dropped a brand-new device right alongside to show us how their Moorestown-based ambitions have grown.
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You get what you thought was going to be your white (or brown or black) Zune home just to find out you've got a limited edition -- great, except that of all the colors to surprise a user with, statistically speaking pink might be the worst selection.
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Brown and Diouf played no little part in that, and it would be no great surprise if they had a pivotal role again on Sunday.
This is, as I say, a sensible idea, it addresses a real problem (the 2008 unpleasantness was more about runs on banks than anything else) and the only great surprise is that governments have managed to identify a real problem and come up with a real solution to it.
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No great surprise that the Goose, a fearsome relief pitcher in the 1970s and 80s, has made it to the hall.
To his great surprise, they laughed and a comedian was born.
"Since he was appointed, Justin Welby has made a point of being self deprecating, showing great surprise that he was chosen at all, " says our correspondent.
Perhaps Apple will have a positive surprise and really come up with a great new iPhone and a hot selling new iPad.
It was no great surprise when the son went to work for a perfume company at 16.
To his great surprise, he loved the job and, after a break to travel the world, began his steady climb up the corporate ladder.
That the government has taken a much broader and less confined interpretation of the law into account is no great surprise.
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There was great surprise that she had got there, found her way home like a dog in a story.
The movie's great surprise, and delight, is Salma Hayek's Elena, a svelte monster with a Cleopatra haircut who runs the cartel.
Meanwhile, there was a surprise winner of the day's big betting race, the William Hill Great St Wilfrid Handicap at York.
Gambling has been big business since Moses wore short trousers and, in these times of austerity and economic hardship, it is no great surprise that many people are once again turning to the vices that give them a modicum of pleasure at the minimum of cost.
It concludes, to nobody's great surprise though in the most timid possible terms that marijuana is a legitimate medical drug.
It is no surprise that in the wake of the great financial crisis, financial regulators are beating a path to Dr. Gigerenzer's door.
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The timing of the attacks came as no great surprise to Spain's security forces, who only two weeks ago had seized a huge load of explosives destined for Madrid.
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