uncommon occurrence

collocation in English

meaningsofuncommonandoccurrence

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uncommon
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈkɒm.ən/us
/ʌnˈkɑː.mən/
not seen, happening, or ...
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occurrence
noun
uk
/əˈkʌr.əns/us
/əˈkɝː.əns/
something ...
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(Definition ofuncommonandoccurrencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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So it is not anuncommonoccurrencein these complicated cases.
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We might even have an explosion, which, unfortunately, is not anuncommonoccurrence.
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It is not at all anuncommonoccurrence.
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Sadly, that is not anuncommonoccurrencein areas of low demand.
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That is not anuncommonoccurrencefor poultry.
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That is by no means anuncommonoccurrence.
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It is not anuncommonoccurrenceto have a very hard winter in my part of the world.
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It was nouncommonoccurrenceduring changeover periods for such a firm to reduce its employees to the order of 2,000 or 3,000, and then build them up again.
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It was nouncommonoccurrencefor the men, after a night's hard toil, to have to dump their catch back into the sea for lack of buyers.
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That is not anuncommonoccurrence.
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This is not anuncommonoccurrenceamongst small villages of this type.
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This was not anuncommonoccurrenceand serves to illustrate the connection between patrons and their foundations at the time.
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For a well-paid creative artist to work for over half a year for no remuneration is a mostuncommonoccurrence.
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This was an extremelyuncommonoccurrence, although no more nor less common than any of the other 67,108,863 sequences of 26 red or black.
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She also carried full royal titles, anuncommonoccurrencefor women.
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Yet riots and gunfights were not anuncommonoccurrence.
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Lymphoma of the skin is anuncommonoccurrence.
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While anuncommonoccurrence, male rockfowl have been observed giving food to a female.
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The performers rehearsed for two days, anuncommonoccurrencefor them, sometimes with two or more songs being rehearsed concurrently by various combinations of the musicians.
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These gadolinium chelates present many health hazards and can even lead to death, though it is anuncommonoccurrenceand typically is only seen in patients with kidney issues.
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