When I started a few years back there were only 1,500 known patterns.

Try as they might, the professors could not explain away the results by referring to any known patterns.

The estimate used, he said, is generally based on the last known pattern of use.

A professional in public relations who insisted on anonymity said the dispute fit a known pattern.

But with four or five exceptions, every case examined thus far fits one or more known patterns, he said.

There is no point, though, in merely repeating a known pattern.

But he was nagged that this case wasn't following any known pattern.

But there were things that didn't fit and couldn't be ignored just because they belonged to no known pattern.

From the easy known pattern to this new pattern, collecting on debts.

The simple answer, child, is that they can't fit you into a known pattern.