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This is probably the most unusual game I've ever been around.

This is probably the biggest fraud against the banking system so far. It's unusual because we're talking about debit cards, not credit cards.

This is probably one of the more unusual set of circumstances for this time of year that I can remember.

This is something that happens once every 30 years, ... It's an unusual situation. Would it be better if we were one of the other four teams in the division at the end of the year? I don't think so. I'd rather be a footnote to history than not in history at all.

This is one of the unusual kind of Hollywood-type cases that we don't see too often, which is why it's so extremely frightening to us.

This is pretty unusual to have this this early but I think it shows how competitive the race is.

This is perhaps one of the most unusual gravestones in New Jersey.

The weather has been unusual to say the least.

The whole day it was kind of an unusual scheme for us. They dropped eight and rushed three. You see that some in 2-minute or third-and-20 but to do it as often as they did on first down, you don't see that very often.

The unusual part ... our team isn't a very penalized team, in general. In Super Bowls in general, they let the guys play. Put those two things together, and it was a little unusual, and they were very, very costly, obviously.

The unusual midweek surge to -- and hold on - the top slot is particularly impressive in that the film is playing in only 683 theaters, which is but a fraction of the runs of the others film in the national box office Top 10.

This definitely is an unusual gig for us. It's all about trying to reach more people. The shows are short, which makes it kind of different. I guess we're just going to fire off a few fast ones.

This case started in a very unusual way but I'm happy to say that today it is a criminal proceeding. Mr. Padilla is being treated as any American citizen charged with wrongdoing in this country.

This case started in an unusual way, but I'm happy today it's in a criminal court proceeding. Mr. Padilla is being treated like any other American citizen in the criminal justice system.

This is a most unusual situation. It's hard to remember three more colorful or marketable figures coming out of college football.

This has been a little unusual in that Internet stocks have been selling off on a steady basis. Usually, you see the sector down 20 percent one day then up 40 percent the next.

This has been about as uncomfortable and unusual a situation I could ever imagine,

They're unusual kids, ... They have an awful lot of poise. They are not hotshots. They like to play. They know their place. They have a little deference to the upperclassmen - in a nice way. They're just really good kids.

Although weaker than expected, interpretation of the release is clouded by the unusual drop in food sales in August and, as is often the case, the MPC will be waiting for the next month's release to get a better picture of the underlying trend.

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

Although (the officers who were released) are technically required to remain available to the justice system, it would be easy for them to hide in Haiti or flee abroad. It is unusual in Haiti to grant pre-trial release to defendants held on such serious charges, especially where, as here, the judge has not even questioned all of the witnesses.

A lot of people try to stick it out through the holidays. They don?t want to disrupt the family at that time. It?s not unusual that come January you start to see a lot of filings.

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books.

They never stopped believing. They really never stopped believing. We never stopped our practice routine. It's an unusual group of kids. They were never discouraged.

They have been most grateful for the opportunity to study here while their universities are closed and had been widely embraced by the Boston College community, which is why this random and unusual act of violence is so upsetting.

They didn't make him take down his gutter - they built around him. This is certainly an unusual story.

They didn't do anything fancy or unusual that we haven't worked on, but when you play them, you have to get ready for a ton of stuff. When you haven't spent a ton of time on something, sometimes they get you, and they got us good.

They are a very unusual group of drug users. They get an incredible amount of information about their drug of choice before they commence use and the vast majority of them try to use it as responsibly as possible.

This particular wooden dam is unusual for its age and the fact that it's wooden. But not in the sense that there are many dams that need fixing throughout the country and all around Massachusetts.

There wasn't demand to purchase seats in advance. It was not unusual to have 12,000 to 14,000 in walk-up sales on game night. We led the majors in walk-up sales.

There were lots of bronze castings, but among all the debris we found a number of things that didn't fit. It took me a year or two to figure out that the unusual finds were related to glass.

There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

There really aren't any unusual requests. They're humbled by the situation. It's hard to be displaced and ask for what you need.

There may be somebody else taking the baton now, which is not unusual in a recovery. Housing is typically the leader out of the desert to the promised land; but, just like Moses didn't make it to the promised land, as rates rise, housing doesn't quite make it, either. Other sectors do.

This is unusual for them. They're the gas company. They like to slam-dunk things.

This is unusual for it to have gone on sometime without contact.

This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year.

This is the unusual episode that we've had so many rate hikes in a row.

This is a virus that isn't acting in a predictable way. It's unusual that cats would be infected at all. The range of hosts here is unusual for an avian virus.

This is a very unusual recession in that the consumer did not collapse and incomes are in the black,

This is a very unusual case. We don't see many like this, ... We've had a lot of horrific murders, but I don't remember a genuine child abduction in this area.

They're seeking additional information into our business practices. The only thing that's marginally unusual is that this was an unscheduled visit that we didn't expect.

They're freshman, but they're unusual freshmen. I think they will continue to get better.

A terrible problem for retailers is that most stores are evoking yawns from consumers, instead of excitement. Retailers just can't keep making the mistake of taking customers for granted by selling ho-hum kind of merchandise. Consumers are looking for unusual and exciting products and they're not finding them.

As kids growing up, it wasn't unusual for him to take us to rehearsals and sometimes to opening night parties on Broadway. These were the people he worked with.

As unusual as it sounds, it is being investigated as a criminal incident.

About 1 in 20 transactions that are flagged up as unusual turn out to be fraudulent. It can take a lot of effort and time for staff to contact customers to check if fraud is taking place.

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

The more unusual the product, sometimes the better its chances of success. It has to be distinctly different from major brands to attract consumer attention.

It's been such an unusual thing for us to have three gold, it's great.

It seems like we're in the late game an unusual amount of times compared to maybe some other schools. I guess that's a good thing that people want us to be in that game. Or maybe they're trying to keep women and children from being exposed to some of the stuff that we do on the court, and hoping everybody's asleep by the time we play. I do think it's difficult on the players.

It's fairly unusual that we would do this.

It's fairly unusual for someone like this to go missing.

It's a sort of grim realization that they are raking in profits from the misfortune of others. They didn't seem to really mean it. It was more a way to deal with the unusual hand they'd been dealt amid the chaos of postwar Iraq.

It's a small number, but it's not unusual for an entrepreneur who goes looking for money and is turned down to go back, retool their business plan and come back at them again, ... It's not as formidable as it sounds.

It's a total loss. The only thing that will be left is the concrete slab. It's a shame it happened to a house this unusual and pretty.

It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal; school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.

It's a testament to his dedication that he was able to, after six weeks off, play 32 minutes. Very few people with his injury and his natural conditioning problem, being 7-6, would be able to do that. But he's got an unusual amount of dedication to his team. He should be really commended for that.

It wasn't unusual for a kid to sign a conference letter and still be recruited. Signing day was in March then, and if you signed a kid (to a conference letter), you had to baby-sit him to make sure he was still coming.

It was so unusual to deal with something like that. A guy I went to college with, one of the first guys I met when I got to Utah.

It was some type of a mechanical failure. There was nothing unusual happening.

It was really an unusual situation that university police were asked to handle. The police are well-trained and only use deterrents in necessary circumstances.

It was a very serious and highly unusual legal motion, but something we felt was absolutely necessary, and we are pleased that the judge has recognized our position.

It was a very ambitious trip. I have to say, to my surprise, all of our ambitions were fulfilled. All of the musicians we were going down there to record with, we recorded with?I've edited about nine or 10 songs down from the trip, and the stuff is really, really unusual and special. It far exceeds what I hoped for in sort of the refined qualities of it. I thought it might just sort of be rough stuff out in the woods. But ? some of this stuff is just amazingly fine, fine stuff.

It's a very unusual skull with this crest coming off it. It doesn't immediately shout tyrannosaur when you first see it.

It's a very unusual skull with this crest coming off it.

It's a very unusual situation. I think we could see a drop in prices come late June and in July, and that is typically when you see the big spike in prices.

It's a very unusual day for the Dow Jones because IBM and J.P. Morgan accounted for more than half the drop. We've got a lot of fear in the market place and that's going to continue. We don't know where the bottom is, so just stay the course. There's so much uncertainty and investors have so many questions that they just sell stocks.

It's a very strong week for auctions, compared to other weeks in the year. It's very unusual to have so much supply concentrated in one week.

It's a course that big enough and wide enough that our players can express their game, ... All I've asked of them is to give themselves a chance by hitting fairways. We have a team of high-ball hitters, which is unusual for us, but this is what is needed here -- even with the wind. We have had two solid days of observations, and I believe we have the best possible pairings we can make. I've sat down two Scotsmen in Gordon Law and Fraser Mann, and it was the most difficult decision for a Scotsman. But, I felt we had to get the rookies out there early. Both Gordon and Fraser have done this before and understand. They will be ready to play.

It's a dangerous airplane. Aerodynamically, it's a very unusual airplane,

It is really unusual to find small dinosaur footprints,

It is sort of unusual that in the middle of the day the shark came in so close to shore.

It is sad that, over the years, all of these fanciful or unusual theories about Mr. Holt's disappearance should receive public ventilation, overshadow his life and require an explanation,

It is sad that, over the years, all of these fanciful and unusual theories about Mr. Holt's disappearance should receive public ventilation, overshadow his life and require an explanation,

It is unusual to see two distinct colors there so close together: green and pink,

It is unusual to pair freshman together. They have been very steady throughout the entire season.

It is unusual to have a boathouse right on the racecourse. The old building had no public space.

It is unusual for the rainy season to extend into daylight savings time. Typically our rainy season coordinates pretty well with Pacific Standard Time.

It is unusual for them to pull the plug at the 11th hour. It's always in their interest to get companies in there and trading as soon as possible.

It is unusual for someone to take out a mortgage of that size, secured against their home, and to pay it off within a matter of weeks.

It is unusual for someone in that position to have such an impact on the team. He really appreciates the skills it takes to play that position. He anchors our passing game and is the key cog in our defense. He passes more than anybody else on our team. And every point starts with a pass. Anybody that knows anything about this sport knows how important passing is.

It's an unusual year for us. We've got a lot of road work going on in different phases.

It's an unusual step. It's a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.

It's an unusual situation, bordering on unique, given that Katie is one of the few bona fide superstars in the history of television news. It's not a routine talent change.

It's an unusual situation because we've had a few years where teams have been interested. We haven't had any calls on our seniors this year. But I think we'll have some guys get looked at next year.

It's an unusual situation because the price of crude is holding its own. But the price of gasoline on the futures market has risen dramatically. The least bit of bad news sends the market into a panic.

It's an unusual set of circumstances, and the vast majority of asbestos cases are not likely to be influenced by a judgment like this.

It really was an unusual game and so absolutely bittersweet I didn't know how to talk to the team, so I didn't say a whole lot.

It's a little unusual. The organization's in 11 states, and it's historically unusual to have both the president and vice president be from the Red River Valley.

It is truly history in the making that the country music world is coming to New York, and joining with Broadway for such a wonderful, unusual and entertaining event. This special concert, performed by some of the superstars from both worlds, will not only highlight the similarities and universality of these two seemingly different genres, but also help expand the audience for each style of music.

It's true that it has taken a little bit longer than we expected but that kind of thing happens with regulatory authorities -- nothing unusual in that,

It struck me as unusual when he was moved into a policy role in the first place. It took him out of his natural environment.

It strikes me as quite unusual that she would have a process unlike that for any other one under consideration.

It's not impossible and not unusual to have misplaced or confused the two.

It's not so unusual for the defense to be ahead of the offense. It's pretty good that that's the case. If you can stop people, you have a chance to win some football games. I think we'll be improved on defense. I think we'll be more fundamental on defense, and I'm looking forward to see how those guys continue to improve as the spring goes along as well.

It's nothing unusual that pitchers and catchers from time to time have issues. It's the emotion that goes along with playing this game.

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

For a listed building or something very unusual, you might need a specialist survey carried out by somebody who really understands that type of property. And some very unusual buildings are in a poor state of repair. So lenders might release the money in stages, and get someone to check before they release any more.

The number of young people in the theater was more than we expected. In fact, the audience had an unusual number of minorities and children of all ages. You might expect that for a Disney show, but it was still refreshing to see.