Her unexpectedly fast return from her morning ablutions had caught him by surprise.

Originally, demographers had predicted that Texas would become a majority-minority state by 2008, but the unexpectedly fast growth of Hispanics has pushed up that date to 2004.

But the unexpectedly fast pace of the cleanup means that decisions about what to do with the site, which once seemed a long way off, suddenly seem to be nearly around the corner.

But within two years, he said, the company was enjoying unexpectedly fast growth and in fact was promoting a $250 million plan for partial privatization of the state's prisons.

Extreme events - unexpectedly fast and unexpectedly large - are a hallmark of chaotic systems.

Consumer spending in France grew at an unexpectedly fast rate in October, providing further evidence that Europe's second-largest economy is also its fastest growing.

Refugees have been returning home at an unexpectedly fast rate and money is needed to meet their basic needs and provide them with jobs.

But after an unexpectedly fast performance in 1993, Sauber convinced Mercedes to enter officially in 1994.

Investors will be waiting to see if the Fed thinks that the current, unexpectedly fast pace of economic growth is worrying enough to consider raising interest rates.

The company, based near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, used an overdraft facility and a loan to help fund its unexpectedly fast expansion.