Sentence examples for had been common from inspiring English sources

Layoffs had been common since spring.

Murdoch's ambition had been common knowledge since the previous November.

Before, it had been common for Rodgers to go unnoticed on campus.

In the Upper Lake he found no trace of smallmouth bass that had been common a few decades earlier.

She said that in the days of Morsi it had been common to interact with the President's spokesman.

He didn't want to put Merrill Lynch out of business for actions he believed had been common on Wall Street.

His harmonies are richer, and his orchestra plays a more prominent musical role than had been common.

He noted that religious clashes had been common since Sunni Arab insurgents bombed a major Shiite shrine last February in Samarra, north of Baghdad.

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.

They erupted in a soccer-style chant that had been common during the days of his campaign: 'Morsi-i-i-i-i-i!

Dr. Woods said that repeated first-cousin marriages within families had been common in human history and could not be terribly harmful.