Sentence examples for a fairly common practice from inspiring English sources

This is a fairly common practice.

The agency kept a percentage of his salary — a fairly common practice, Mr. Tan said.

That seems to be a fairly common practice among drug companies, perhaps to deflect attention from the costs of medicines.

Turning a charity event into a spectacle — and allowing donors to see recipients weep with joy — was a fairly common practice at the turn of the last century.

"It's a fairly common practice among the schools that do not have sworn officers," said Asa Hutchinson, a former congressman and a candidate for governor in Arkansas.

Meticulous diary keeping, however, "has been a fairly common practice since at least 1800," said John Parmer, a historian in Akron, near Ephrata, who is writing a book about the Amish fraktur tradition of writing and illuminating family trees and religious manuscripts.

If the couples do not like each other, both marriage and business will fail.If they feel that nature has shortchanged them, some families will even bypass a biological son for an adopted one a fairly common practice, says Mr Mehrotra.

It is fairly common practice to express the overall quality as a single index or score, by applying a weighting to each monitored quantitative parameter that rates each parameter according to the perceived influence of that parameter on overall health (Sanchez et al.,2007; Bordalo et al.,2006; Fernández et al.,2004).

As a result, sales are up "across the board".Traffic-counting is already fairly common practice.

Shevelle Rhule, the fashion and beauty editor of Pride, a lifestyle magazine for the British black community, said: "We know that this is fairly common practice but that doesn't make it excusable.

It is fairly common practice for top prospects to leave college early.