The phrase "more common by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English. It is typically used to compare the frequency or prevalence of one thing to another. Example: "In this region, the use of bicycles is more common by far than the use of cars." This sentence means that a higher percentage of people in this region use bicycles compared to cars.
Finding the advantage of this little collection, I propos'd to render the benefit from books more common, by commencing a public subscription library.
Right-handedness is much more common, by about 8 to 1, but social pressures on children to not be left-handed are strong.
Coast range one more common, by becoming a tree, Sierra one a bush, former with black fruit, latter with red fruit.
This might be evidence of racism, or it might be evidence of a sneering attitude made more common by extreme income inequality.
Wilpon had been content in the past to instruct his general manager to make such calls, and such a strong pursuit of a free agent has been more common by other owners.
On other bodies in the Solar System, small impact craters are more common by far than large ones, a statistic that reflects the size distribution of rocks floating round up there.
In other words, medication use by women is more common than by men and CFS is more common in women, but medication use in CFS is not dependent on the subject being female.
It has been suggested 12 that the loss of function of classical tumour suppressor genes by promoter hypermethylation is more common than by mutation.
Which codons are more common varies by organism [2], and is determined by a wide variety of factors, including GC bias.
Regulation by pairs of TFs or miRNAs is more common than by TF-miRNA pairs.
However, this obstacle may be overcome by deep sequencing of the 'bar-codes' instead of the more common detection by microarrays [ 24, 25].
