Sentence examples for then commonplace from inspiring English sources

He is said to have adapted the long cavalry pantaloons favoured by the 10th Light Dragoons as a replacement for the knee-length breeches and stockings that were then commonplace.

His Quaker parents and his own observations as Portland city overseer of the poor, as well as the excess of drunkenness that was then commonplace, influenced his attitude toward liquor.

Princeton is facing demands for the renaming of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, because the former president (of the university as well as the US) shared then commonplace views that now would be considered racist.

In 1997 it bought a stake in Sidanco, a small oil firm, only to end up in a bitter fight with TNK over some of Sidanco's assets—a fight that highlighted the crookedness then commonplace in Russian business and the loopholes in Russian law.

Despite their conservative cultural and musical leanings — their initial '50s hits were recorded without drums, which were then commonplace in country music — the Louvins' greatest acclaim came with the advent of rock 'n' roll, when rebellious sentiments and loud backbeats were in ascendance.

Statements of this kind were then commonplace: there were many in the secular intelligentsia – including HG Wells, also a contributor to the Thinker's Library – who looked forward to a time when "backward" peoples would be remade in a western mould or else vanish from the world.

Much of what The Independent pioneered in arts journalism back then has become so commonplace that it is hard to think there was a time it didn't exist.

However, the payment of players had become so commonplace by then that the FA had little option but to sanction the practice a year later, despite initial attempts to restrict professionalism to reimbursements for broken time.

It's so commonplace.

The highlights of life are first unbelievably intense and then absurdly commonplace.

Before the country could realize a black Presidency, it seems, popular culture conceived it — first as comedy, then as commonplace.