Sentence examples for is this common from inspiring English sources

In academia, there is this common statement: New ideas have either been done before, or they're wrong, or both.

So visible is this common way of improvement that I call it the Global Educational Reform Movement or GERM.

It is this common theme that will have you reminiscing about the past, while also appreciating the superb graphics that accompany your new game.

Woolf, she writes, "had a beautiful vision of ­generation interlinked in this way: of how 'minds are threaded together – how any live mind is of the very same stuff as Plato's & Euripides… it is this common mind that binds the whole world together and all the world is mind'".

"There is this common assumption that gold mining is gold mining is gold mining, and that it's really potentially lucrative," said Joshua Fisher, lead author of the study and director of the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at Columbia's Earth Institute.

But how true is this common refrain?

That there's this common humanity.

"This is common, too common," he said.

This is the common beaver.

This is the common wisdom.

So why isn't this common knowledge?