81.   I should also point out that some of these indies are likely to be very pleasant surprises.

82.   If management turns away from Lassiter, it is turning its back on the very mind-set that made this past season a pleasant surprise and a beacon for hope.

83.   In four years of living in the Middle East, in fact, I have found traveling in Syria to be the most pleasant single surprise.

84.   In some cases, the exercise can yield pleasant surprises.

85.   In recent days, officials have promised analysts a few pleasant surprises, even though the company interrupted production in the spring for biannual maintenance checks.

86.   In that respect, this season was a pleasant surprise for Toledo and his staff.

87.   Investors, who were braced for bad news from the February jobs report, got a pleasant surprise Friday that helped push bond yields down sharply and stocks higher.

88.   It has been his experiences away from basketball that have been a pleasant surprise.

89.   It may come as a pleasant surprise that a few members of Congress are attempting to steer a drastically different course.

90.   It was a pleasant surprise to find a shelf of old, leather-bound volumes of some classic authors, including Washington Irving and William Makepeace Thackeray.