The 'blocking' high pressure systems also made this an unusually calm winter, with very few gales.

Emergency doctors breathed a sigh of relief last night as, for once, there seemed to have been more drama happening outside the hospital than on the unusually calm wards.

Though they initially paid the farmer's claim, the insurance company became suspicious when an investigation found that he had been unusually calm when the emergency services arrived.

I arrived at my desk for another day's glorious toil feeling unusually calm.

The concierge who opened the door to them was said to have appeared unusually calm throughout the ordeal.

That they often work from home also means that their families are unusually close to the highs and lows of their professional lives.

All while maintaining an unusually close bond with a much younger member of the aristocracy.

Even before the hour was up, respondents typically said they felt unusually close to the person they had shared questions with.

For long periods they didn't see each other, but through their letters they remained unusually close.

A novel day out at a sport being brought unusually close to the public.

Many of his ballets push into unusually dark territory.

Everything came together quickly, squeezed between busy schedules, making an unusually dark offering for the festive season.

These seven sons had unusually dark faces.

She talks of an unusually fast track, saying that she was not the only athlete who had problems.

Other private pilots flying in the region that day reported good visibility, though, with no clouds and winds that were not unusually fast.

As for the weather this winter, this was driven by winds high up in the stratosphere sweeping unusually fast.

Its insecticidal activity has relatively low mammalian toxicity and an unusually fast biodegradation.

A script may give the user unusually fast firing rate, unobtainable otherwise, or may perform seemingly trivial tasks such as reloading.

No, it was the unusually hot summer air tempratures that undermined summer sales.

But he’s wary that that has more to with the unusually hot weather.

The afternoon when she returned was unusually hot.

They are usually found at tectonic plate boundaries but also form at 'hotspots', large regions of unusually hot magma in the mantle.

This year that particular puzzle could be explained by the unusually hot and humid conditions.

Her face was calm but her movements — unusually rapid and slightly frantic — suggested that she knew worse was about to come.

His ascent to the company's executive ranks was unusually rapid and it was not long before he was appointed director of the product planning division.

This shift was always going to occur over time but the pace of it has been unusually rapid.

An unusually rapid increase, despite an otherwise normal result, may indicate a false negative result and the presence of malignancy.

By 1804 he had purchased a commission as a lieutenant, an unusually rapid progression in the ranks.

The northern hemisphere winter continues to be unusually severe.

This account backs up a scientific study that the expedition was struck by unusually severe weather.

Seek help if symptoms do not improve after a couple of days, or if symptoms seem unusually severe.

What was common to all these regions were unusually severe heatwaves.

What's more, though the cold blast was seen as unusually severe, few questioned the timing because people expected winters to be much longer and harder than now.

The feet are unusually short, broad and densely hairy.

The legs are proportionately shorter than those of other cats, the ears are set very low and wide apart, and it has unusually short claws.

The eggs hatch after an unusually short incubation period of only 10 to 11 days.

To compensate the crowd for the unusually short game, the players agreed to play a 10 over-a-side match later in the day.

The trailer cars will have an unusually short length of.

The unusually slow early pace did not play to his strengths.

The outfield for this game has been unusually slow.

The ship set off at an unusually slow pace, which most spectators attributed to the stately nature of the internationally publicised event.

The winning time was an unusually slow 2:49.8.

It has an unusually slow rotation of 22.77 hours.