
Captain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
( , Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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but the tone would be more formal with the use of 'however' instead. I'm sure the BBC write like that, but they currently seem to have a campaign to encourage one-sentence paragraphs, so I'm not going to hold them up as a standard of formal written English.
The coalition forces expected an easy victory and to impose their will on Iraq; however, the post-invasion period was a decade of continued conflict.
( , Mon 8 Oct 2012, 17:32, 2 replies)

or "in point of fact"
or the politician's favourite "the reality is"
you should be on fairly firm ground that it is a fact. But I don't see any great linguistic advantage "however" has over "in fact".
My personal favourite to use is "as it turns out". It seems you have already researched some mysterious external authority when you use it.
"As it turns out, china has more overweight people than the US"
( , Mon 8 Oct 2012, 20:26, closed)
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