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Example sentences for "means uncommon"

  • A species of solitary bee (Anthidium manicatum, Fabricius), by no means uncommon with us, forms a nest of a peculiarly interesting structure.

  • These grotto-building grubs are by no means uncommon in ponds; and in chalk districts, such as the country about Woolwich and Gravesend, they are very abundant.

  • Voye was the first who described these insects; but though they are frequently overlooked, from being very small, they are by no means uncommon on old walls.

  • I have repeatedly met natives in the interior frightfully mutilated by encounters with the Black Bear, and cases in which Europeans have been killed by them are by no means uncommon.

  • Mr. Mason writes: "Though seen so rarely, the tapir is by no means uncommon in the interior of the Tavoy and Mergui provinces.

  • It is by no means uncommon in Northern Europe or America, frequently growing in large rings; the pileus is pallid, and the stem stained with lilac.

  • Shorter fusiform sporidia are by no means uncommon, varying in the number of septa, and in constriction at the joints in different species.

  • It is by no means uncommon to find the two forms in the same pustule.

  • Such mullers are by no means uncommon in North America.

  • As has already been observed at page 223, it is by no means uncommon to find portions of polished celts which, after the edge has been by some means broken away, have been converted into hammers.

  • Such recesses are by no means uncommon on the stones intended for use as hammers, and farther on (p.

  • Such an anachronism is by no means uncommon in cases of haunting, but it renders the task of theorising on ghostly phenomena all the more difficult.

  • It is by no means uncommon to meet with the same rocks, even in the same districts, absolutely unchanged in the proximity of volcanic dikes.

  • Imperfections about the orifice of the urethra are by no means uncommon.

  • It is by no means uncommon to find the cranium very extensively diseased, though the affection originated in the superimposed soft parts.

  • It has also been found in Rhodes, where black wares are by no means uncommon, some closely resembling the Italian bucchero in character.

  • Those of Roman date are indeed by no means uncommon, but are discussed in fuller detail in the corresponding section of the work (Chapter XXI.

  • It is obvious from a glance at any collection of terracottas that there is a great similarity between the various representatives of any one type, and that actual or virtual repetitions are by no means uncommon.

  • Queensland may well be termed the home of citrus fruits, as we have no less than three native species which are indigenous to the State, and are by no means uncommon in our scrubs.

  • Fruits of many kinds are so thoroughly acclimatised that it is by no means uncommon to find them growing wild, and holding their own in the midst of rank indigenous vegetation, without receiving the slightest care or attention.

  • Instances of severe contusion or division of one nerve of the arm, for instance, accompanied by transient signs of concussion of varying degrees of severity in all the others, were by no means uncommon.

  • Again in these portions of the bowel the development of local signs, and the later formation of an abscess, were by no means uncommon.

  • The White-tailed Eagle is an occasional but by no means uncommon visitant to all the Islands.

  • The Buzzard is a tolerably regular, and by no means uncommon, autumnal visitant, specimens occurring from some of the Islands almost every autumn.

  • This, however, is not a very common state of plumage; but it is by no means uncommon to find a Cuckoo in May or June with a good deal of rusty reddish barred with brown, forming a sort of collar on the breast.

  • Such inconsistencies are by no means uncommon.

  • The use of the neighboring tree as a campanile is by no means uncommon in Greece, and a pretty custom it is.

  • Indeed landslides are by no means uncommon in Thera, and several persons have been killed even at the landing place by masses of stone falling from above.

  • Bags of thirty and forty fish are by no means uncommon.

  • It is best when the fish can be seen splashing on the surface in the early morning or evening, when good catches of fine fish may be made; but, as wind is by no means uncommon, it is not always that circumstances are favourable.

  • This was a refinement in cruelty on the part of these professedly Christian Portuguese, which our travellers afterwards learned was by no means uncommon.

  • This toughness of the buffalo is by no means uncommon, but different animals vary much in their tenacity of life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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