By surprise
Long
Both terms in one sentence
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Given id's long history of competitive deathmatch modes, this took many fans by surprise.
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Left Behind: "To say the Israelis were taken by surprise is to say the Great Wall of China is long."
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Metronomic Man Mashing: A gorilla who caught Doc by surprise does this to him, and continues long after he has fallen unconscious and woken again.
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