Sentence examples for that became common from inspiring English sources

It computerized its operations in the early 1970's, long before that became common.

Accidental promotions and demotions like that became common during Mr. Romney's four years in office.

These gatherings evolved into the Sunday church services that became common in spiritualist churches in the 20th century.

The company shipped its software in ziplock bags with a manual, a practice that became common in the industry.

It was a reaction against the top-down approach that became common place during the Blair years, a feeling of being patronised and being taken from granted.

An excellent example of how to strengthen protections for borrowers is a 2007 Minnesota law that forbids some of the exploitive mortgages that became common during the boom.

Another source of erroneous assignments may result from incomplete TOCSY patterns that become common as the size of the protein increases and also depend on the isotropic mixing period.

The big play in the Dolphins game, of course, was Darrelle Revis's pick-six — by the way, when did that become common jargon?

The decline of autophagy may be an important factor in the rise of cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders that become common in old age.

It's like peeling an onion: You take off one layer and that becomes common and known, so you peel off the next layer.

It is rare for an academic to coin a term that becomes common critical parlance, yet Chicago Professor Wayne C Booth managed just this in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction.