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    ordinary


    1. Secondly he was an ordinary man, and capable of


    2. The things we overlook as simple and "ordinary" are truly wondrous


    3. Nothing appears out of the ordinary


    4. Everything we had put together, Marianne and I, in our quiet ordinary little lives and our quiet ordinary little home


    5. ‘Is there a problem?’ I asked in as ordinary a voice as I can manage, as I lead her into the kitchen and starting to clear my breakfast things away


    6.  not being too out of the ordinary


    7. There was nothing running for cover, everything was quiet, and the house looked just like any other ordinary estate home on a hill


    8. And these were not ordinary students; each was superior in different fields of the sciences


    9. Bougainvillea, morning glory, hollyhocks, dusty white acanthus, all waving and grinning from everyday, ordinary tins brightened with casual splashes of paint - they just wouldn't look the same in Britain


    10. “Yes Ma’am, just an ordinary GP

    11. All of the policemen on crowd duty turned and fled the carnage, but the ordinary people in the crowd started to cheer and whoop with delight, carrying the soldier around on their shoulders and yelling and shouting that they'd never liked bankers at all


    12. But when she appears, she looks quite ordinary … obviously not performing … I wonder where they’re going – some operatic society event, perhaps? I’m just about to turn away when I become transfixed – he’s holding her hand! Gobsmacked, I watch as he opens the door for her to get into the passenger seat, and I catch an exchange of smiles between them which stops me in my tracks


    13. Rather than employing actors to tell classic tales, to make people laugh, or to inform and to educate, he hit upon the novel idea of making ordinary people the stars of television shows


    14. Most of all, however, it was called by this name because it was funny watching other people making complete fools of themselves, and pretty soon nearly every television programme featured ordinary people trying to win small fortunes, to become movie stars and generally being the nastiest of nasties in the woodpile


    15. These ordinary people cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and horribly patronising witticisms, The ultimate aim of this personal degradation was focussed on one thing; to single out only the most exceptional talents, while ensuring that the audience at home was vicariously thrilled and titillated by the humiliation of those who failed


    16. It is not an ordinary place


    17. Hey, didn’t I see an ad for silk sheets somewhere in that heap of newspapers? That would be something out of the ordinary, and nice too


    18. To say the least, I am staggered when she comes back, despite her ordinary shirt and jeans, she looks wonderful


    19. but the ordinary people in the crowd started to cheer and whoop


    20. The tone of the writing is cheerful and contented, I do hope that means that Bunty was happy … There are the usual references to Philip though it is odd that she never mentions her riding … perhaps it was such an ordinary thing she didn’t feel it necessary to note it down at all

    21. get the range with the ordinary shells, and only then use the special


    22. Refusing all offers of help from her, he fusses around the kitchen, getting out plates, pouring red wine … ordinary activities which restore her balance, wiping away the memory of Chas reaching out for her, his hands clawlike in their eagerness to grasp her flesh


    23. whether this was ordinary shyness or from some deeper concern


    24. The waiting relatives and friends of the lesser, more ordinary emergencies watch, and those conscious patients still able to concentrate on realities outside of their own sphere realise that they may not occupy the centre of the universe


    25. We are so often unable to imagine what it would be like to be more conscious of our inner and outer world, moment by moment, because it is such a foreign experience from our ordinary life of half-sleep, or half-waking


    26. Socks and shoes, an overcoat grabbed from the hall, car keys retrieved from the living room, these are the components of ordinary life that he gathers unto him as he walks back into the nightmare


    27. Kev stared out of the window at the little town he had driven through in the dark - just an ordinary, little town with a few shops and a bit of a tourist industry


    28. Me … a pretty ordinary, middle-aged woman … and he wants me… me with all my insecurities and idiocies … He’d been surprised when he’d realised my age … nasty moment … half expected him to make excuses and run away … underestimated him seriously … made a point of convincing me that age gap does not matter … remarkably efficient at convincing … his hands … phew … quiver at the thought … must be getting used to it … starting to retain some basic mental functions whilst thinking of him (thank goodness) … laugh


    29. looked around at the passengers, scanning for anything out of the ordinary


    30. We have pasties and chips for dinner – nice and ordinary – not to mention all I had in the freezer for two people

    31. Meanwhile the final carriages filled and headed for Truckee carrying the last of the summer's tourists home to hearth and kin in the distant cities and towns of their ordinary lives


    32. “Surely you’ve noticed by now that Trouble Valley is no ordinary village, and there is a reason for it


    33. Maybe the agents were just ordinary Altreenan’s who had gone insane! At this stage all I could think about was my old nanny


    34. Now he was just ordinary wood working John Smith,


    35. It was obvious this wasn't your ordinary home brew


    36. What remains of the crop, after paying the rent, therefore, should not only replace to them their stock employed in cultivation, together with its ordinary profits, but pay them the wages which are due to them, both as labourers and overseers


    37. The idle everywhere consume a great part of it; and, according to the different proportions in which it is annually divided between those two different orders of people, its ordinary or average value must either annually increase or diminish, or continue the same from one year to another


    38. These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail


    39. In settling the terms of the lease, the landlord and farmer endeavour, according to their best judgment, to adjust that rate, not to the temporary and occasional, but to the average and ordinary price of the produce


    40. It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms

    41. In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in political arithmetic is so much extolled by Dr Davenant, computed the ordinary income of labourers and out-servants to be fifteen pounds a-year to a family, which he supposed to consist, one with another, of three and a half persons


    42. Something of the same kind happens in many other trades, in which the workmen are paid by the piece; as they generally are in manufactures, and even in country labour, wherever wages are higher than ordinary


    43. In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary


    44. That a little more plenty than ordinary may render some workmen idle, cannot be well doubted; but that it should have this effect upon the greater part, or that men in general should work better when they are ill fed, than when they are well fed, when they are disheartened than when they are in good spirits, when they are frequently sick than when they are generally in good health, seems not very probable


    45. More people want employment than easily get it ; many are willing to take it upon lower terms than ordinary ; and the wages of both servants and journeymen frequently sink in dear years


    46. But in 1756, another year or great scarcity, the Scotch manufactures made more than ordinary advances


    47. In the ordinary variations of the prices of provisions, those two opposite causes seem to counterbalance one another, which is probably, in part, the reason why the wages of labour are everywhere so much more steady and permanent than the price of provisions


    48. Accordingly, therefore, as the usual market rate of interest varies in any country, we may be assured that the ordinary profits of stock must vary with it, must sink as it sinks, and rise as it rises


    49. accordingly, is said to be the common interest of money in China, and the ordinary profits of stock must be sufficient to afford this large interest


    50. The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed














































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    Synonyms for "ordinary"

    ordinary ordinary bicycle average indifferent inferior normal mean mediocre conventional accustomed popular everyday common traditional frequent commonplace homely

    "ordinary" definitions

    a judge of a probate court


    the expected or commonplace condition or situation


    a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death


    an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel


    (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields


    not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree


    lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered