• Bartie Synge of the Scottish Agricultural College, said that it was not uncommon for animal droppings to have the infection.

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  • Until a year ago it was not uncommon in a single week to have the funerals of three young kids.

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  • The conditions on the long journey were so hazardous that it was not uncommon for half the workers to die before they reached the estates.

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  • State attorney spokeswoman Danielle Traverneir said the request for the subpoena was fairly routine in such cases and that it was not uncommon to deny them.

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  • In an age before intellectual specialisation, it was not uncommon for a factory owner to read philosophy or for a doctor to play the flute beautifully.

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  • Marc Gander of the Consumer Action Group said that it was not uncommon to see costs pop up in mobile games for children that parents at first thought were free.

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  • But Ive said it was not uncommon for Apple to scrap "incredibly compelling" devices at the production stage if they were not considered game changing, or the design problems were considered deep-seated.

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  • She also heard from a person who runs a company in Minnesota who said it was not uncommon for employees to call into the office and say they were too tired to come to work.

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  • This proved to be an especially sensitive issue as our virtual selves developed radically different personal relationships than we had and it was not uncommon for strange, overly personal, sometimes offensive, often simply bizarre emails to arrive in our in-boxes.

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  • This meant that it was "not uncommon" for the LAS to have no ambulances available in one or more areas to deal with emergency calls.

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  • Indian defense officials said the small arms firing had been going on for about six hours in the Akhnoor sector, but stressed that it was an exchange that was not uncommon along the tense control line.

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