Sentence examples similar to it grew common from inspiring English sources

Normally a major energy exporter, Libya could no longer keep the lights on in the capital and blackouts grew common.

But during the Middle Ages, as papal financial difficulties grew more complicated, they were resorted to very often, and abuses grew common.

But as the fabric of traditional culture unraveled and guns proliferated, tiger slaughter grew common.

"I sometimes wonder whether sports like this are really worth it," Young mused on 3AW693 recently, echoing questions that have grown common and urgent in the Australian public sphere.

Color battles like these have grown common.

Kidnapping for ransom has grown common in Somalia.

Deals with "co-operating witnesses", once rare, have grown common.

In New York State, where schools set their own policies, requirements of 100 hours or more have grown common.

As the broader struggle with terrorism has continued, words once known only to intelligence experts have grown common.

As the ploy grows common, the authorities are receiving key assistance from an unexpected partner: Microsoft itself.

Only very slowly did voting by paper grow common enough that the word "ballot" came to mean not a ball but a piece of paper.