Sentence examples for is still common for from inspiring English sources

Although a few grocers have opened in city food deserts, it is still common for Chicagoans in some rough neighborhoods to travel several miles to buy produce.

When it comes to paying for advice, it is still common for advisers to get commission from banks, insurers or pension providers on products that are bought by their client.

It is still common for ministers to think of their banks as mere adjuncts to the treasury, making them prop up clapped-out state-controlled industries until the banks themselves collapse.

As usual, the Brits can be found straddling the cultures: a glass or two is fine; a bottle to yourself is verging on the unprofessional (although this rule ceases to apply once the day has finished; it is still common for business associates to head to the pub after work to get sozzled).

However, in Japan, hospitalization surgery is still common for cases of breast cancer.

One possible explanation could be that females paid more attention to detailed weather information because it is still common for females to assume a caregiver role.

"She was tough because she had survived in Australia where it was still common for blokes to jeer at girls.

But it was still common for men to have multiple wives, and because of this Amini's extended family sprawled.

I learned that in 1983 it was still common for a woman to be admitted to the hospital for a biopsy, wait there for the results, and then undergo the surgery in her case, a nearly two-week ordeal.

A cautionary exhibit by Rem Koolhaas's practice OMA shows "Architecture By Civil Servants", from the 1960s and 70s, when it was still common for cities to have large in-house architectural departments.

A century ago it was still common for magazines and newspapers to publish poems inspired by great public occasions.