Sentence examples for uncommon number from inspiring English sources

There were an uncommon number of conversion vans, and tinted windows seemed to be a popular option.

And while all origin stories contain some exaggerations, Twitter's is cobbled together from an uncommon number of them.

• Blame the relentless winter if you will, but publishers seem to be falling prey to an uncommon number of cock-ups at the moment.

An uncommon number of crop failures, fires, epidemics, and droughts reconfirmed peoples' sense of divine displeasure with the performance of the ruler.

In the minds of local authors, at least, the adjacent cities of Minneapolis and St Paul produce an uncommon number of murderers, gangsters, pimps and other low-lifes.Minneapolis, with its gleaming skyscrapers and wide boulevards, hardly looks noirish.

Thank you! "This house is out of balance," says Olivia De Poshlady as the episode begins, apparently leading a briefing in which she's warning the handlers to be extra vigilant due to the uncommon number of things going wrong since... well, since the series began.

Although asbestos-related pericarditis due to occupational exposure is uncommon, a number of cases have been reported over the last 20 years (Table 2).

We did not collect information about length of stay of each resident, movement of individuals between homes, which we understand is uncommon, the number of admissions per home and sources of admission (ie, own home, hospital, other care home).

The major single gene defects are uncommon while a number of important environmental factors have been substantiated.

Although injection site reactions are not uncommon, the low number of reactions recorded in this study may be reflective of reporting practices more than event rates.

Loss of a single allele of p27 KIP1 confers increased susceptibility to chemical carcinogenesis in mice [ 41] and is not uncommon in a number of human malignancies [ 42- 44].