"ordinary incident" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something mundane or not particularly noteworthy, as in: "An ordinary incident at the office caused the disruption in John's schedule."
Their story focuses on courtship, marriage, and the ordinary incidents of family life, which, in spite of many difficulties, shape real happiness and a meaningful existence.
But these conditions "do not constitute atypical and significant hardships in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for a plurality of four justices.
Nevertheless, rationing of water and interrupted sanitation are ordinary incidents in small towns and rural areas.
The most ordinary incidents of health centers were grouped into 15 categories that are homogeneous in terms of patient's condition and required medical procedure.
It said this was "no ordinary political incident" but rather a "serious terrorist crime".
On a daily basis, other hazards, such as accidents and ordinary criminal incidents, can be more acute.
When ordinary light is incident on a crystal exhibiting double refraction, the light is split into two polarized components, an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray, vibrating in mutually perpendicular planes.
We have also applied our formalism to compute optical forces in optical trapping systems with incident ordinary Bessel beams, comparing their profiles with those already obtained by previous authors.
In a recent period, two "moving violations" (ie, bad driving) tweets appeared and a "suspicious person" was reported at 11pm in a residential neighbourhood.Sergeant Sean Whitcomb, a department spokesman, says it is precisely the combination of the ordinary and escalated incidents that provide residents with an easy sense of what police accomplish without requiring an actual run-in.
BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook and other communications tools have all been used in the London Riots to help ordinary people avoid incidents and even clean up London, using the Twitter hashtags like #riotcleanup and #riotwombles and the enormously successful @riotcleanup.
