The false alarms long ago became commonplace at Boland, so frequent that students often ignored them.
Recycling programs, a radical notion 30 years ago, have become commonplace.
Trade and professional conferences for data center experts, unheard of years ago, are now commonplace.
Images have now become so extreme that acts that were almost non-existent a decade ago have become commonplace.
Not long ago it was commonplace to speak in disparaging terms about the cacophony in the European Union.
A few years ago, it was commonplace for more than 2,000 veterans and their relatives to show up at the sprawling campsite in the farming town of Cheshire.
Penang, a Malaysian hot spot in Syosset, is packing them in; Baang, a sleek Asian fusion destination in Woodbury, is a big hit; and Korean eating places rarely seen in Nassau or Suffolk just a year or two ago are becoming commonplace.
Sights that were rare even a few years ago are now commonplace: white men and women jogging throughout the neighborhood; white college students biking, skateboarding and hanging out on stoops; groups of white 20-somethings walking home from the subway in the wee hours.
Thirty, twenty, ten years ago it was commonplace to think of Europe as a trade bloc and of the growth of European companies, European brands and European flows of capital - and then to debate the internal rules, disciplines and institutions necessary to make the trade bloc work.
Unlike even 20 or 30 short years ago, it is commonplace, even routine, for former Senator to become lobbyists.
