16 example sentences using uncommon.
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So when you walk across a cross walk, with the right of way, it's not uncommon to have a car zoom by you before you get out of the middle of the street. Which in my mind, is total ********.
1bn 10y is large-ish, but by no means uncommon. > However, with the use of futures, you have to have margin capacity behind the trade.
With an ISO of about 1, its not uncommon for exposure times to fall in the 5-10 second range, even in broad day light. Smiling is not recommended for these long exposure times.
He want do do things that go against any common or uncommon sense. He sometimes wants to inflict pain upon himself, to wallow in the ensuing misery, and enjoy it.
It's not uncommon to hear a bike coming up behind you with the mudguard rattling against the wheel. If anything, having a tatty, battered old bike affords more status as it attests to a long and lasting love.
Some wikipedia entries and other sources state lightning is uncommon over water and the open ocean. This is completely untrue - there is a lot of it.
First, it's not uncommon for virtual disk formats to be logically zeroed even when they are physically not. For example, when you create a sparse virtual disk and it appears to be XGB all zeroed and ready to use.
After a few months of being launched and signing customers, it's not at all uncommon to be bringing in something like $50/month. At that point, it's tough to keep motivated to tweak, market, A/B Test and otherwise keep moving forward.
Those guys are pretty uncommon, they're disliked even in spite of their P&L, and no one helps them when they get unlucky. There are also people who don't think or live very differently from respectable professors-- except who have $12 million in their bank account instead of $12.
It's still not uncommon to talk to a random startup person and they'll tell you they have hosting costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per year. When you then compare this to what they're actually doing with their servers, it seems to me they're overpaying by several orders of magnitude.
It's also not uncommon in my area for families to hire Au Pairs which is really just a fancy way of saying live-in Nanny/house maid, which is a servant's title. They're given fairly little pay, maybe $1200/mo and room and board in exchange for child care and some house chores/personal assistant work.
Apparently this is not an uncommon practice, as businesses that were once administered by pen and paper are now using WhatsApp to improve efficiency and reach new customers.
They realize what they have to do in their jobs contradicts the high idealized patriotic beliefs of what this country is about This is extremely uncommon. For example, I used to be a submarine officer in the Navy, and I left as a conscientious objector because of this realization.
I've contributed code to OSS projects backed by companies previously and it's not uncommon to end up with "dangling" pull requests -- no-one looks at it either for months or at all. I'm still appreciative of these companies, don't get me wrong, but if it takes months for a short but critical bugfix to get through then you're not playing the OSS model properly.
I personally know someone who had a uncommon disease and he did extensive research looking at articles published in journals and science/medical books. However, almost every doctor he went to dismissed him and laughed at the idea that he could possibly know what he was talking about. Most of them don't deal with the uncommon diseases and refuse to believe it when it is in front of their eyes.
Using more expensive and uncommon HDDs does nothing more than eat into their margins and complicate supply chain logistics, two things I'm sure Apple loathes. Moving to a non-standard HDD was probably entirely motivated by engineering, not business, reasons, and most likely done to preserve the machine's thermal envelope or reduce failure rates seen on pre-production or previous generation iMacs.
Uncommon definitions
not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"
marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"
See also: rare