The happy couple's first child is due in April, the start of what could be an extraordinary year.

"And the initial public offering market had an extraordinary year."

That's just because it's been an extraordinary, fascinating and, on the whole, successful year, I would maintain.

The play ran for an extraordinary two years in London.

It would be, in short, one of the most extraordinary years in modern British history.

There is grim legacy enough for everyone from that extraordinary year.

As you know, this is an extraordinary year for council fund raising.

Just like that, it was over, two of the most extraordinary years of my life.

This has been, as she says, an "extraordinary" year in which "it is all happening at once".

As we are all aware, 2009 was an extraordinary year for a variety of reasons.