Not surprisingly, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.surprisinglysur‧pris‧ing‧ly /səˈpraɪzɪŋli $ sər-/ ●●○ W3 adverb 
The exam was surprisingly easy. Not surprisingly, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- It's surprisingly warm this morning.
- And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school.
- By this time, the Tour was, not surprisingly, in crisis.
- Not surprisingly the company turned to obvious areas of cost-cutting and revenue- raising.
- Not surprisingly, most companies eagerly accept this offer.
- Students are bright, articulate, self-confident and surprisingly mature.
- Television coverage had surprisingly little impact on trends in party credibility.
- The experimental protocol was indeed there, but the actual details seemed surprisingly scant.
- This, after I had learned how to work with people with cancer, often proved surprisingly effective.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Not surprisingly, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Not surprisingly, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.· Provided proper rope management has been employed it is surprisingly easy to arrest a slide.· The Chargers dominated the Raiders on both sides of the line, walking away with a surprisingly easy victory.· If you don't want direct mail from any company there is a surprisingly easy remedy.· It was surprisingly easy to get the wing aloft with a step backwards and a sharp tug on the front risers.· It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive.· But it is a surprisingly easy drive.· His strange quiet co-existence with Marcus was facilitated by his now surprisingly easy relations with Irina, they even teased each other.· This lets you produce standalone applications for end-users and it's surprisingly easy to get started with.
· It was just a feel-good song, a piece of ephemera, and Lucy was feeling surprisingly good.· A surprisingly good squad, considering they have almost all new starters and a new coach.· The picture quality, even on a large screen, is surprisingly good.· It can be surprisingly good or exceedingly bad.· The result was often surprisingly good, with a considerable degree of wit although no humour.· When we did start playing proper gigs we got surprisingly good money.· We'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then.· Unusually for a central London club, the Gardening Club is surprisingly good.
· Inevitably some fall by the wayside, but his success rate is surprisingly high considering the breadth of the repertoire he tackles.· A surprisingly high number took them up on the deal, he said.· John Gravelle says the standard here of individual players is surprisingly high.· The tapes and scores which they produce come across with real sincerity, and display surprisingly high levels of competence.· The agreement between the figures is surprisingly high.· But it is usually there, in surprisingly high quantities.· Eight times out of ten seeking ideas succeeds in eliciting an idea and that is a surprisingly high hit rate.
· The one-acre garden at Fenton is a surprisingly large oasis of peace, bounded by high walls.· Arjunas must make up a surprisingly large fraction of the bodies striking Earth.· Nevertheless, a surprisingly large number of artists continued to work in a realist manner.· But there was a surprisingly large contingent of newsmen.· There was also a surprisingly large contingent watching another golfer at his putting practice.· In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.· Franchise operations seem to provide a surprisingly large amount of luck to judge by their substantially better survival rates.· Then add monthly totals together-it will be a surprisingly large total.
· Television coverage had surprisingly little impact on trends in party credibility.· But there is surprisingly little weed.· Yet surprisingly little research has been conducted into the subject, at least in Britain.· Branch managers and staff have changed surprisingly little as a breed, for all the brighter uniforms and open plan offices.· However, there is surprisingly little in this book on what marriage and divorce meant to the men and women involved.· The town has changed surprisingly little over the years.· There is surprisingly little literature which explores these questions in curricular terms.
· The profit margin in advertising is surprisingly low, currently about 1-2%.· The climate is certainly milder, the atmosphere more relaxed, the golf unbeatable and the prices surprisingly low.· Posy Simmonds' whimsical humour comes as a welcome relief in a medium that is surprisingly low on laughs.· These numbers are surprisingly low, no junction had a mean accident or risk rating above the midpoint of the scale.
· Khotan itself, despite its prestige, was surprisingly small.· The list of Golden Globes voters on the receiving end is surprisingly small.· Even when he holds up his hands, they're surprisingly small and virtually unmarked.· Even so, this is a surprisingly small area.
· Her thin arms were surprisingly strong.· Rohmer was surprisingly strong, but the impetus of Cardiff's lunge spun him away from the girl.· The forces generated in this way are surprisingly strong.· Strands of a cobweb are surprisingly strong but they can snap.· I tried to force her back to bed, but her fever made her surprisingly strong.
VERB· For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.· The experimental protocol was indeed there, but the actual details seemed surprisingly scant.· They usually operate at 12 volts, but in the darkness of the garden even a low-powered light can seem surprisingly bright.· At each round the Confederate artillerymen gave a shout, which seemed surprisingly near.· It seemed surprisingly hot in the carriage for the time of year.· It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.· Certainly he seemed surprisingly agile in that moment.· Away from her home ground she seemed surprisingly ill at ease at first, almost shy.
WORD FAMILYadjectivesurprisedsurprising ≠ unsurprisingnounsurpriseverbsurpriseadverbsurprisingly ≠ unsurprisingly
unusually or unexpectedly: The exam was surprisingly easy. Not surprisingly, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.