At the same time this world contains continuous surprises.

The election year budget was described as an exercise in restraint that contained few surprises.

The numbers we will get on Thursday probably won't contain major surprises.

The budget contained few surprises: most major initiatives had been announced long beforehand.

"In the next two days, there are going to be a ton of economic reports that could contain surprises."

But the draft report listed all arguments and contained few surprises.

But the data released yesterday contained few surprises for the market.

Although the portraits are done in broad strokes and contain few surprises, they seem on the mark.

Although the department's report contained few surprises, it also did little to suggest that the continuing drama at Oxford is close to an end.

These are now being looked at by Ofwat and contain relatively few surprises.