Sentence examples for become a common thing from inspiring English sources

"Putting down the Muslim Brotherhood has become a common thing in this country," said Ahmed Abdul Aziz, 38, who attended the rally.

"It has become a common thing that the government every now and again does not fulfill its own decisions," says trade union president Vladimir Khlebodarov.

Although existing as early as the 1500s, it wasn't until the 1870s that alarm clocks started to become a common thing in private homes with the advent of the mechanical wind-up version.

Even so, it became a common thing for staff to be accused of rigging equipment, of dialling up losing streaks, of modulating people's electronic luck.

Avery, 28, used a derogatory term to refer to his former girlfriends, saying that it had "become like a common thing in the N.H.L. for guys to fall in love with" them.

"I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the N.H.L. for guys to fall in love" with former girlfriends of his, he told reporters, using crude language to describe the women.

That December, he walked up to reporters before a game against Calgary and said, "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the N.H.L. for guys to fall in love" with his former girlfriends, though Avery substituted a vulgar term.

It's becoming a common thing.

Do all those things and by 2020 electric cars will have become a common sight in cities across the world.

At some price point, things will shift, and the following answer will become a common and respectable one: Nowhere.

• CAP The common agricultural policy should become a common food and rural rolicy (CFRP).