1.   As restrictions are dismantled, commercial use of the Internet is becoming more common.

2.   Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards has become more common.

3.   Crimes against the elderly are becoming more common.

4.   Petty theft and pickpocketing are becoming increasingly common in the city centre.

5.   Sexism in advertising is becoming less common thanks to the new complaints commission.

6.   The custom of naming women after flowers is becoming less common.

7.   As working from home becomes increasingly common, people are finding it easier to dovetail parenthood with a fulltime career.

8.   Reaching Out WHO believes that, as AIDS becomes more common, the disease promises to unite the world to a degree never seen before.

9.   Revolving underwriting facilities are NIFs that have become common in the euromarkets.

10.   It is becoming increasingly common for retailers to sell both types of product.