In the mid-1990's, it was not uncommon to encounter a block of underperforming Long Island wines.
It is not uncommon to encounter questions about why religious groups should engage in secular activities.
In everyday English, it is not uncommon to encounter the word "whore" in the company of the word "lying".
In the emergency room, it was not uncommon to encounter drunks swinging at nurses, drug addicts shouting and handcuffed prisoners under armed escort.
Thirty years ago, it was not uncommon to encounter white, middle-class suburban and provincial teenagers wearing badges that proclaimed "SMASH THE SPG".
Already, oncologists say, it is not uncommon to encounter patients struggling to balance cancer treatments with insulin shots and diabetes drugs.
Well, because people generally need a reason to buy wines from a region they don't know, it's not uncommon to encounter older vintages of such wines that have been on the shelves for a while.
Until recently in Cuba, thanks to Mr. Castro and a United States embargo that froze the Cuban economy for four decades, it was not uncommon to encounter that majestic buffalo coin jingling in your pocket.
For a Swedish reader, it wouldn't be uncommon to encounter English phrases in a Swedish text, but I wanted to maintain the slight disruption a reader would feel.
But the airy, vivid new shop is an electric prod in the bland flank of SoHo, the onetime arts mecca where it is now not uncommon to encounter anesthetized out-of-towners standing four deep, bumping bags from Victoria's Secret and Sephora as they gaze into iPhones purchased on the site of a grand former post office.
