Kevin J. Timms, the Ford Motor Company's 37-year-old computer security manager, arrived at work here in his metallic blue Mercury Cougar at 6 45 on Thursday morning, a not-uncommon hour for managers at Midwest manufacturers.
It is not uncommon for two hours to go by with nothing but the Zendesk keeping me company.
It's not uncommon for rush-hour travelers to let a train or two go by before finding one with space to stand in.
Sometimes it's not uncommon to spend an hour in the car just to make a 2km trip.
Such inversions lend the movie — or, at least, its central hour — an uncommon zest and zip, culminating in a twist of which I will say little, save that it signals both the making of "Iron Man 3" and, with any luck, the possible unmaking of the genre.
Matt Werder, marketing manager of the Syracuse, N.Y., location, says it is not uncommon to spend an hour with a customer in order to find the perfect fit.
"It wasn't uncommon for hundreds of hours of handwork to go into a single car".
For us, it's two and a half hours of uncommon power, in which we get to pick the books we feel like hearing rather than the ones they might have chosen had they not been under restraint.
It wasn't uncommon to spend 90+ hours in the main story, but at least the story had substance, just a bit long.
So it's no great surprise that Ferriss' follow-up to The 4-Hour Workweek is The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman, which gets released tomorrow.
While 32-hour weeks weren't uncommon during slow winters, this time the hours were reduced indefinitely.
