The phrase 'background of life' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person's past experiences or life story. For example, "He shared his background of life with the class, from his childhood in rural Michigan to his current success in the music industry."
They are the jackhammer noise in the background of life.
If I chose, I could blame my parents for this: they had seen themselves as spectators, in the background of life.
A problem of architectural exhibitions is that their subject is the background of life, but must become foreground for the purposes of a show.
The sirens that lurk in the background of Life Round Here on record are turned up and brought forward to become an aggressive threat, an urban soundtrack made intensely real.
But the plants, the earlier life forms, whose existences may be static but are in every way just as wondrous, are ever more disregarded, and seen merely as part of the background of life, like pavements or buildings or central heating.
"[Our background] isn't academic," says Batista. "We have the background of life, we learned by living".
"The overcrowding is just there — it's the background noise of life.
Conversations become garbled, with words almost impossible to pick out, and the everyday noises and situations which for most of us are the background ambience of life become a cacophony of imposing sound.
"People naturally make involuntary movements about once every 10 seconds -- this is the background 'movement of life,'" Witchel said.
The latter are overwhelmingly safe, both in absolute and relative terms, notwithstanding the occasional graffiti of insults and indignities that, regrettably, are part of the background noise of life in the age of social media.
The overall QALY loss was estimated to be the area denoted by the triangle with vertices being the background quality of life weight at onset date, the quality of life weight at the worst day and the time since onset of the worst day, and the background quality of life weight at the recovery date.
