Sentence examples for nearly commonplace from inspiring English sources

The marriage of detailed orchestration and bracing improvisation has become nearly commonplace.

It is now a nearly commonplace story -- if a story endlessly inspiring to many can be termed commonplace -- how Armstrong was diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer, how it spread to his lungs and brain, and how he was given a 50percentt chance of surviving.

The British courts have not been nearly as severe in imposing punishments for financial crimes as their American counterparts, where sentences of 10 years or more for white-collar defendants have become almost commonplace.

Still, it is no longer shocking to learn that for Kennedy, the 35th president, recreational adultery was nearly as commonplace as brushing his teeth.

It also makes one think that same-sex weddings may soon become nearly as commonplace as the traditional black tie, country club and limousine kind.

Although only five years have gone by, this was a time when "startup" and "young entrepreneur" weren't nearly as commonplace as they are today.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post called it "an impressive, almost daunting achievement" and felt that the film was "spectacular in a manner that has nearly become commonplace with Disney's feature-length animations", but was less enthusiastic toward the end of his review saying, "Shakespearean in tone, epic in scope, it seems more appropriate for grown-ups than for kids.

It therefore seems likely that TRTR phosphorelays are nearly as commonplace as TRPR phosphorelays, although currently less-well studied experimentally.

Seeing it in operation sent Twain into raptures: "All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly into commonplaces contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle".

Such complaints were still commonplace nearly 20 years later; in The Book of Days (1864), author Robert Chambers wrote about a case of wife selling in 1832, and noted that "the occasional instances of wife-sale, while remarked by ourselves with little beyond a passing smile, have made a deep impression on our continental neighbours, [who] constantly cite it as an evidence of our low civilisation".

Tolerance of infidelity is commonplace in nearly all aspects of French life.