41.   Fish kills are expected annually, especially during hot, dry summers in areas of West Texas where such weather conditions are more common than elsewhere in the state.

42.   Flushing is a middle-class, largely white and Korean immigrant neighborhood where extortion by gangs is more common than drug dealing.

43.   For most women, a bad hair day is more common than a good one.

44.   For readers intimidated by perfection, Buckley recruited a historian to document the near-misses, which not surprisingly are more common than the perfect games themselves.

45.   Freak accidents are less common than the everyday perils of packaging a live sound system for a stage show.

46.   From IBM to Earthlink, from Cisco to Microsoft, millionaires in the cafeteria have been more common than card-carrying unionists.

47.   He urged the Assembly to reconsider the measure in light of new information suggesting that late-term abortions are more common than had previously been thought.

48.   How did families deal with this, when it was so much more common than today?

49.   Home music studios are more common than ever before, and at the center of most of these setups is the home computer.

50.   Ignorance is more common than overt antagonism, many here say.