Part of extracted post is grey

Hi there

I currently have the following code in my preset:

<span style=”font-family: helvetica;color: #333333;”>
<B>[post_title]</B>
[post_excerpt length=”700″] <B>Read full news article</B>
</span>

Which should display the first 700 characters of the post (a snippet) in dark grey. However, only the first paragraph is displaying in #333333 – the text after displays in the themes default colour.

Does anyone know why this would be? Here’s an example:
http://i.imgur.com/TzCmf60.png

Thanks

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-post-list/