The phrase "a rather common phenomenon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that occurs frequently or is widely observed in a particular context.
Example: "In urban areas, traffic congestion is a rather common phenomenon, especially during rush hour."
Alternatives: "a fairly typical occurrence" or "a quite frequent event".
In plants polyploidy is a rather common phenomenon [ 24- 26].
Environmental residual heteroskedasticity is a rather common phenomenon across agricultural environments in livestock production.
While this is a case study on Germany, a low priority on prevention is arguably a rather common phenomenon in many if not all European countries (and beyond).
Together, our analysis strongly supports the view that AS is a rather common phenomenon in fungi and associates with higher multi-cellular complexity.
Hence, a dual retention mechanism, where the NP and RP effects contribute simultaneously to the retention, is a rather common phenomenon in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography [ 89].
The coexistence of multiple clocks in one organism is likely a rather common phenomenon, yet most clearly displayed outside of the group of the conventional molecular animal model species (Naylor, 2010; Tessmar-Raible et al., 2011).
Considering that other virally expressed exogenous proteins, including GFP (Akil et al, 2012; Wang et al, 2013) and connexin26 (Yu et al, 2013), all showed nonspecific expression, our results suggest that the cellular specificity achieved by VGLUT3 driven by a nonspecific promoter is an exception rather than a common phenomenon.
Sharing of the most 5' exons between these two genes is a common pattern revealed by many of the transcripts of these two genes (both ESTs and cDNA), indicating that the sharing is a common phenomenon rather than a rare transcription event.
The widespread occurrence of such independent genetic controls between the sRNAs and the mother genes suggested that independent transcription of the sRNAs might be a common phenomenon, rather than only special circumstances.
New research demonstrates that Torres, Madonna and McCain's mother, Roberta -- who is still campaigning for her son at the age of 96 -- aren't rare outliers, but rather examples of a somewhat common phenomenon.
