Sentence examples for when it was common from inspiring English sources

Yet, at a time when it was common for American dancers to adopt foreign or at least unusual-sounding names, he did make his stage name Willam.

In other words, the soap opera seemed to be effective only when it was common knowledge, when each person knew that other people heard it.

But even when it was common practice, Brien said, he never tried to alter the ball's characteristics to increase the distance of his kicks.

"You know how it is," David S. O'Malley said quietly, recalling his younger years in Kansas and Wyoming when it was common to disparage gays with nasty labels.

This is a massive U-turn since the days when it was common to speak of "cutting out the cancer" of the slums.

That is down from 14.3 in 2007 and way down from 30 in 1909, when it was common to have big families.

"It is interesting that all this comes around the time of an apparently significant birthday, when it is common to look both forward and back," he says.

One yearly respite from the noise comes during the month-long ban on noise-making imposed by chiefs in the lead-up to the Homowo harvest festival, when it is common for local volume vigilantes to seize loudspeakers of recalcitrant noise-makers.

The Tesla supercharger made the electric car road trip possible, but it will be far better when it is common for hotels to feature overnight charging.

The amount of beechmast varies from year to year, but when it is common in Continental Europe, the bramblings gather there, meaning that fewer visit the British Isles.

Members of a population jointly accept a fiat when it is common knowledge that they have made manifest their willingness to accept and promote that fiat as a basis for action.