The phrase "a more common method of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing the frequency or popularity of different methods in a specific context.
Example: "In recent studies, researchers found that a more common method of data collection is through online surveys rather than face-to-face interviews."
Alternatives: "a more prevalent approach to" or "a more frequently used technique for".
However, among those who currently take drugs this figure jumps to 16%, suggesting it is becoming a more common method of acquiring drugs.
These methods were compared with a more common method of medium frequency (MF) pulsed reactive DC magnetron sputtering.
A more common method of classifying aphthous stomatitis is into three variants, distinguished by the size, number and location of the lesions, the healing time of individual ulcers and whether a scar is left after healing (see below).
Recently, endoscopic ultrasound, with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 95%, has become a more common method for preoperatively localizing insulinomas [111].
A more common method forms the pile with a carded sliver.
Infrared detonators are an advance over the more common method of rigging bombs to explode after an insurgent nearby presses a button on a cell phone, a garage-door opener or other device that gives off an electric signal.
Known to the medical profession as intact dilation and extraction, this procedure was developed as an alternative to induced labor, formerly the more common method of abortion once a pregnancy was too far advanced to permit the fetus's head to pass through the birth canal in the conventional surgical abortion known as D & E, for dilation and evacuation.
Interleaving occurs when different ideas or problem types are tackled in a sequence, as opposed to the more common method of attempting multiple versions of the same problem in a given study session (known as blocking).
Our study used a novel design in which circular case regions containing an incinerator were matched to similar control regions without an incinerator, rather than using the more common method of matching individuals.
It is possible that the Yp-like mode of regulation may be the more common method of regulation for a particular class of genes (i.e., direct targets) or might be revealed to be the primary mode of dsx regulation when higher resolution analyses are performed.
