But it is now becoming common in personal computers, and is bound to become more so.
Flat screens are becoming common in desktop PCs.
The 787 has another innovation that is becoming common in new designs: electric motors instead of hydraulic pumps.
Such cases, where disproportionate force is used against people resisting land projects, are becoming common in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
It is the same sort of approach she foresees becoming common in her current line of work, real estate brokering in New Jersey.
During the 1960s diffusion pumps began to be replaced by ion-getter pumps, with turbomolecular pumps becoming common in the 1980s.
Instead of a puny 7-inch screen that folds from the ceiling, like those that are becoming common in minivans and S.U.V.'s, the conversion van had an amazing 22-inch flat-panel screen.
Not coincidentally, the M.S.B.P. diagnosis flowered at a moment when fretful overparenting was becoming common in the West; psychologists began to worry that some expressions of anxiously attentive mothering might be unhealthy — or even pathological.
Even though there are several memory-card options on the market, Memory Sticks are sticking around and becoming common in many Sony products, including MP3 players, digital cameras and the Clie hand-held computer.
Yu, a gentle-looking man in his early forties, with the placid demeanor of a yoga instructor, works as a mistress dispeller, a job that barely existed a decade ago but is becoming common in major Chinese cities.
Even then, iTunes will sell films at a resolution that does not do justice to the high-definition TV screens that are now becoming common in the sophisticated households Apple targets.
