1. They are, rather implausibly, close friends.

2. She quoted an implausibly high figure.

3. He argued, somewhat implausibly, that the accident could not have been prevented.

4. As matters stand, Afghans are—implausibly—due to go back to the polls for parliamentary and provincial elections next spring.

5. Rather implausibly, China and others insisted they were mainly to ward off pirates and terrorists.

6. The budget forecast, implausibly, assumes the number of AMT payers will soar again in 2008.

7. This was, after all , a hedge fund that delivered implausibly, and consistently good, returns.

8. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stands erect and unsmiling, sports a helmet of implausibly jet-black hair and wears a long dress-coat, studded with medals.

9. Well, the Cheshire Cat-like Rick Perry — he seems to be fading out, bit by bit, until only the hair remains — claimed, implausibly, that he could create 1.2 million jobs in the energy sector.