1.   But for Patrick Byrne, the trainer of Countess Diana, it was more of the same startling success.

2.   By that measure, modern America is a startling success.

3.   From the larger economic indicators alone, Hong Kong is a startling success story.

4.   One of the great late-season stories is the somewhat startling success of the Pistons.

5.   Russian immigration has been in many ways a startling success given the scale of the enterprise.

6.   The startling success of indexing has made Vanguard Group the hottest mutual fund company in the world.

7.   To judge by all the post-genomic activity, and the enormous recent investment in genomics by the pharmaceutical industry, the project is already a startling success.

8.   To date, the spin-off model has largely failed, with no startling successes having come from the years of research.

9.   U.S. officials want to renew the semiconductor agreement, but conceded another five-year extension is unlikely, given the startling success of the current pact.

10.   What phage therapy needed was a startling success.