On live television, it is not uncommon for an impromptu performance to be quickly silenced by producers.
It's not uncommon to see a few winks and nods from the filmmaker that acknowledge the first movie, and the things fans loved about it.
The fourth born of six children, it was not uncommon that I was either too young or too old for something.
" In a story in The Times last weekend, Ariel Kaminer observed that it's not uncommon these days for an anxious, ambitious student to submit applications to 15 or more schools.
"That is a very odd and uncommon name.
"It's not uncommon to encounter a 20-year-old who has not benefited from the maturation you get from higher education, from true engagement in a classroom — it becomes more about taking classes as an extended way to build your résumé.
While a zebra-donkey hybrid is unique, its existence is not that uncommon.
We should seize the uncommon chance and forge ourselves to be a useful man, a firm and persistent man!
The fourth born of six children, it was not uncommon that I was either too young or too old for something.
We are then tempted in defiance to exaggerate the commonness of commonplace things, thereby making them aggressively uncommon.
Now in its way, the spectacle of ten men walking together, all blind of the right eye, is as uncommon as that of a copper castle, and I was turning over in my mind what could be the meaning of this strange fact, when they greeted me warmly, and inquired what had brought me there.
" cried the mouse, "that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?
On the second day she had inquiries made in the neighborhood as to the names of the people there, and she repeated to the manikin the most uncommon and curious.
" "Yes, but I do," said the mother; "I should like to be taken to the palace, and boiled, and laid upon a silver dish, as was done to all our ancestors; and you may be sure it must be something very uncommon.
" "Something rather unusual," said the shadow; "but you are yourself an uncommon man, and you know very well that I have followed in your footsteps ever since your childhood.
This was something quite uncommon.
