The king was only a child, but already he showed a surprising degree of precocity.

They talk and they can sound, to a surprising degree, like real people.

To a surprising degree, they blame us for their economic troubles.

He had in fact conducted it with a somewhat surprising degree of determination.

Although people sometimes vote on the basis of what's good for them personally, they also put aside personal interests to a surprising degree.

And who, to a surprising degree, mapped out the plans he wanted to see put in place.

But the fact is, there does seem to be a surprising degree of commonality.

History is allowed, to a surprising degree, to tell its own complex and contradictory story.

No more simple statue in all London, but human to a surprising degree.

They exhibited a surprising degree of consensus and common interest throughout the meeting.