Sentence examples for no uncommon from inspiring English sources

Now, mock battles, like mock trials, are no uncommon affair.

They had taken off for Botwood, Newfoundland, 10 hours earlier, but they had been forced back by foul weather -- no uncommon occurrence in those relatively early days of long-distance commercial aviation.

As an illustration let us take the no uncommon case of a manufacturer who announces his output in terms of the earth's circumference; his annual output of yarn would circle the earth three times.

He rarely appeared ruffled, even on the brink of a national strike - no uncommon thing in those days - slipping in and out of his union headquarters, opposite Euston station, looking like a bank clerk: a slender figure, always immaculately dressed.

It is no uncommon thing for a great firm of fashion creators to pay their designers £2,000 a year, and the risk of their models being exploited has always to be run.

Thousands of them have found better remuneration and lighter toil it is no uncommon thing for those who, toiling night and day, could earn only one or two dollars per week, to now receive from three to ten dollars per week for operating a sewing machine two-thirds as many hours, and with lighter labor.

That is one reason to believe that other market-neutral funds will not find themselves in the same straits as LTCM.A hedge by any other nameThe combination of apparently low-risk strategies with enormous leverage may be rare among hedge funds, but it is by no means uncommon in other parts of the finance industry.

Simply put, the dual scaling of distortion (micro) and dilatation (macro) is no longer uncommon.

An investment of many thousands in a layout is by no means uncommon.

Known as "sans-papiers" — people without papers — their approach is bold, but by no means uncommon.

Protesters are by no means uncommon at congressional hearings, but this particular protest had rattled people.