It is common for employees to spend an hour or more a day simply commuting.
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In India it is common for people to take calls inside a movie theater.
It is common for western expert to base its viewpoint and prediction on western media reports.
The surgeon said it is common for patients to remain hospitalized four or five days for observation.
In China, it is common for companies to be owned by central, provincial, city or county governments.
Now, it is common for university professors to found biotechnology companies, or to serve on their boards.
It is common for people to head to a pub after work to relax and socialize with friends.
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It is common for cyber strategists to refer to cyberspace as a domain like air, land, sea, and space.
It is common for people to be told that they are not entitled to any help when in fact they are.
It is common for retailers to slash the prices of electronic products in anticipation of the arrival of their upgraded versions.
In consumer-goods industries it is common for a large number of differentiated products to be produced by a small number of firms.
It is common for system companies to buy from local suppliers as it lowers the latency in the response of the supply chain.
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It is common for people to unregister from a course if large number of CS students register for it as grading is usually relative.
It is common for economists and neoliberals to argue for the use of relatively unrestricted vouchers in lieu of in-kind or highly circumscribed welfare payments.
Mr. Black said that while it is common for host cities to see real-estate values drop once the games are over, London will be different.
Although the procedure is routine, it is common for some of the bacteria to survive it and therefore for infections to re-emerge shortly after treatment.
But Gingrich's attorneys said he never intended to mislead the committee and argued it is common for people to work with both partisan and non-profit organizations.
Remembrance Day 2011 falls on Friday and it is common for a minute's silence to be observed at 11 minutes past 11 all over the country.
These days, it is common for an individual to have hundreds of relationships across a wide array of social media platforms, be it Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
It is common for fire extinguishers to be borrowed for inspection day, for workers to be schooled in what answers they have to give when asked questions.
While it is common for people to do things in their sleep that they do during the day, they do them more clumsily or inaccurately, says Anderson.
It is common for elite institutions to place a number of students on their lists even when they have virtually no chance of being seriously considered for admission, Mr. Dick said.
In a sport where it is common for recently hired coaches to be sacked before their first season is over, Ferguson lasted an impressive 27 years at the helm in Manchester United.
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Now it is common for studies to be conducted in many countries, often taking advantage of the cost savings available when doctors and patients live in emerging markets like India or parts of Russia.
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It is common for these funds to charge a performance fee, based on the success they have pursuing their investment strategy, in addition to an asset-based management fee, based on the amount of money provided by investors.
At sentencing, it is common for defense counsel and judges alike to invoke the passage of time and intervening efforts by the cooperating witness to acknowledge his or her wrongdoing as factors in favor of a reduced sentence.
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It has been my experience that when a stock is in free fall, it is common for someone with a vested interest in moving the stock higher either to leak the correct information or simply to start a rumor.
In other words, the longer than 1-year holding period, the return of 100% of the initial capital to the limited partners, and the full and equal risk that managers take alongside their limited partners (plus it is common for the managers to put some of their own money into the fund) all justify carried interest treatment as a capital gain.
Indeed, it is so common for French leaders to place their advisers in top jobs outside the civil service that there is a word for it: pantouflage.
In both continents, it is also common for people to take calls inside a movie theater.
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