Sentence examples for once uncommon from inspiring English sources
It brings many once uncommon ailments, led by heart disease.
It was once uncommon to find telephone-company executives anywhere but phone companies.
Once uncommon in Asia, diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system are now the continent's leading killers.
Where it was once uncommon to cross state lines in pursuit of new teachers, recruiters now do not blink at crossing oceans.
Such attacks were once uncommon, but they have multiplied over the past three years and now pose a significant challenge for the allied forces fighting in Afghanistan and trying to train the country's nascent army and police.
Chen Ken, the WHO representative for the South Pacific, says: "We're now seeing extreme diabetes rates, and people ill and dying from diseases that were once uncommon in the Pacific".
The disease was once relatively uncommon in Asia (including China, Japan, India, and the Middle East), central Africa, and Central and South America.
Once considered uncommon, blood pythons have benefited in recent years as vast tracts of rain forest have given way to oil palm plantations.
But Newsom's penchant for launching so-called strike teams to tackle key issues and strategically announcing several hires at once is uncommon compared to past governors, said Susan Kennedy, who was Cabinet secretary to former Gov. Gray Davis and chief of staff to Schwarzenegger.
The director Christopher Alden, who last season kick-started an abbreviated City Opera season with a darkly sexy production of "Don Giovanni," once again showed uncommon skill in traversing the uneven terrain of "A Quiet Place".
But it's not uncommon, once the fury of the internet has been unleashed, to see user scores averaged from thousands of mostly-zero-star reviews, tainting a product's reputation for ever.
