1.   An unlikely pair cooled USC.

2.   And while Bagwell is on fire, the two most consistent Astros hitters are an unlikely pair.

3.   As priests, they make an unlikely pair.

4.   At first glance, Frank and Olive Samuel seem an unlikely pair.

5.   At least until an unlikely pair of heroes stepped forward.

6.   At first glance, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom would seem an unlikely pair to lead the conservative charge against racial preference in the United States.

7.   But this unlikely pair is leading an eleventh-hour, quixotic campaign against expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

8.   Cal Hoff and Tom Fricke may be the most unlikely pair of field hands ever to work a fence line together.

9.   Cornel West and Sylvia Ann Hewlett might seem an unlikely pair to write a book on the problems of parents in America.

10.   Despite all their differences, this unlikely pair has reached the same destination with the same goal.