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GEORGE ORWELL wrote of the Ministry of Truth (in his novel, "1984" ) that it was " startlingly different from any other object in sight" .

But that startlingly high rate was the result of a huge, one-off transfer of government housing to private ownership in the late 1990s.

But his own folder was startlingly close to empty. Inside there was only a single printed sheet. He read it twice.

Stripped of a physical body, the mind stands naked, revealed startlingly for what it has always been: the architect of our reality.

This startlingly modern hotel in the city of ancient Muslim royalty boasts a pool intended to give a sense of swimming into a 3-D movie.

I found it startlingly easy to get hold of steroids online.

But, Hassanali found it has startlingly different results on juvenile wingless locusts, known as hoppers.

One of the most startlingly positive phenomena for many generations continues to unfold around the world.

Space stations probably sprout structures like this, but as a seat it is startlingly comfortable.

Meanwhile the usually overcast and cool skies over Britain have been startlingly clear, with temperates set to break heat records this week.

But its overall approach isn't startlingly different enough to make people give up their current phones.

And worth it, as well, to enter a startlingly different culture at a slower pace.

and, with the state and non-profit colleges cutting back, the for-profit sector has been doing startlingly well.

Their meaning has changed startlingly over the last three years.

For travelers from the United States, the roaming charges can still be startlingly high.

Even more startlingly, the results were the same whatever the subjects' personal preferences were.

However, there are startlingly few foreign fighters in Afghanistan, and the Taliban do not go out of their way to recruit them.

If the Texan husband decides to file in New York, however, he may find the outcome startlingly expensive.

Chinese rhetoric on this issue remains startlingly blunt.

Research has now shown that adults behave in a startlingly similar way to babies when it comes to romantic relationships.

There's a wave of powerful new competitors on the horizon who can price their goods and services at startlingly low levels.

Farmers throughout the world should, in theory, be reaping startlingly good returns on their labour.

Mr Batista's pilot ensured we made a startlingly close acquaintance with the Son of God.

The top 10 borrowed titles have a startlingly different feel now. Romance still made a showing, but the list was dominated by crime novels.

Whitney also presents a startlingly bleak picture of state debt.

But the shape of things to come was startlingly familiar.

Most startlingly, US retail sales fell for the third month in a row last month.

A Russian cinema veteran who won the Golden Lion for Urga in 1992, Mikhalkov has chosen, rather startlingly, to remake 12 Angry Men.

With this, we reach a result which contrasts startlingly with the still fashionable method of Comte and Mill.

But one reason to doubt the glum view is that Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron make a startlingly lovely couple.

A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things.

On Friday, the Dow finished at 10067. 33, startlingly close to the 10000 level it hadn't seen since early November.

If we pass over a period of seventy years we find a startlingly new development.

But Fast Retailing is catching up fast, and has a record of startlingly rapid growth.

Clinton's summation was startlingly blunt