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Here are a just a few sites with the phrase, but it's really quite common (as the Google hits suggest), especially with a pronoun referring specifically to people, e.g., "...in his/her own, special way" :-)

8 Aug 2007 ... Iraqi interpreters: the government responds in its own special way. I can't possibly improve on Justin's piece, but I would like to add that ...
www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/.../iraqi_interpret.asp

In Japanese culture and arts, charcoal has developed in its own ... - [ Traducir esta página ]In Japanese culture and arts, charcoal has developed in its own special way. Charcoal is made all over the world. Wherever wood is found, so is charcoal. ...
www.kenyakitori.co.nz/injapanese.html

MANDARIN Ice Tea. The BEST Ice Tea in the World! | Facebook - [ Traducir esta página ]Its just too good, in its own special way: The Can: From the vibrant pink color, the the font used, the the way it looks like its called ICE JEA, ...
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2362907810 -

Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 281,000 de "in its own special way". (0.14 segundos
http://www.google.com/search?hl=es&rlz=1T4GGLL_esNL323NL323&...

Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 3,060,000 de "in his own special way". (0.44 segundos)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=es&rlz=1T4GGLL_esNL323NL323&...

Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 1,880,000 de "in her own special way". (0.49 segundos)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=es&rlz=1T4GGLL_esNL323NL323&...

I hope this helps!

Possibility:

as to be expected . . .

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In this context I think it means typically because simultaneously, it conveys the idea of manner in which it is done and true to itself.