Sentence examples for been common knowledge for from inspiring English sources

It's perfectly amicable and has been common knowledge for some time".

Far from being a secret, these notebooks have been common knowledge for years.

Some secret: that possibility has been common knowledge for years, and Starr's successor makes no bones about it in public.

It's been common knowledge for a while that fighters are usually "punch drunk" by their old age.

It has been common knowledge for 24 hours that his reign was coming to an end after he underwent further medical tests before the weekend.

Several tenants expressed outrage, saying that the city gave little notice of the evacuation even though the building's condition had been common knowledge for years.

"It was common knowledge for me, and I knew a few other people knew it, but I've never had any pressure put on me," the official said.

That can mean assessing whether a particular hazard is "common knowledge". For example, how widespread is the knowledge that cigarette smoking is dangerous?

It was common knowledge - for those who lived there - that the levees would never withstand a hurricane of Katrina's magnitude…and that one was inevitable, sooner or later.

Now, a movement to restore lost tradition has motivated a new generation of Jewish volunteers to learn a set of skills that was common knowledge for many of their great-grandparents: the rituals of bathing, dressing and watching over the bodies of neighbors and friends who have died.

It's common knowledge for anybody that follows international news that the more than two-year-long crash in global oil markets has caused pain across the sector, with little immunity offered.