The phrase "ordinary affairs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to common or routine matters in daily life or business.
Example: "She prefers to focus on ordinary affairs rather than getting involved in complex issues."
Alternatives: "everyday matters" or "routine business".
Although Mrs. Fitzgerald once bought a bond, no young people, with such an income, are more far removed from the ordinary affairs of business.
There were only the two of them on the mountain, flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back and the crawling lights of vehicles on the plain below, suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs barking in the dark hours.
The first 90 percent of the 1862 message is about governance, and we should not forgot that in addition to leading a huge war effort, Lincoln was directing the ordinary affairs of the United States — the delivery of mail, the collecting of duties, the management of public lands and the supervision of tens of thousands of government employees to do all this work.
Aristotle (384 322 bc) recounts a different story, claiming that Hippocrates was cheated by customs officers in Byzantium; he purportedly did so to show that, although Hippocrates was a good geometer, he was incompetent to handle the ordinary affairs of life.
Paul Walker's wake was never going to be an ordinary affair.
THE murder of Fadime Sahindal, a young Kurdish woman, in the Swedish university city of Uppsala was no ordinary affair.
But this was no ordinary affair.
Most recently, the collapse of the U.S. savings and loan industry in the late 1980s once again showed how the impairment of a country's banking system can interrupt the credit creation process, destroy asset values and otherwise impede the ability of households and firms to carry out their ordinary economic affairs.
How do sincerity and deception intermingle in ordinary human affairs?
After the long era of the Boris and Ken show, this year's race initially promised to be a more ordinary political affair.
But the new gas price alone could seriously damage Belarus's mostly state-owned factories and collective farms, and alienate ordinary Belarusians.The affair also confirms the increasingly poisonous nature of Russia's dealings with many of its former vassals.
