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Meanings of ordinary way in English

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Usage of ordinary way in English
1
Everything had happened easily back then, in such a simple ordinary way.
Lowboy
2
What Murakami describes happened to ordinary people in a frighteningly ordinary way.
The Guardian
3
She'd believe in people marrying and doing everything in the ordinary way.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
4
She was extraordinarily good-looking, he thought, though not in any ordinary way.
In the night room: a novel
5
Of course you are not a bit attractive in the ordinary way.
The Pomp of Yesterday
6
These young ladies, sir, died in the ordinary way, in their beds.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
7
He hoped soon to have everything going on in the ordinary way.
The Great Stone of Sardis
8
Hence, such knowledge is superior to knowledge acquired in the ordinary way.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
9
Sorry now, that's a very plain and ordinary way of putting it.
The Irish Times
10
We put off everything we want to do, in the ordinary way.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
11
She thought it was only the ordinary way of delivering railway passengers.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
12
He's too desperate a character to deal with in the ordinary way.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
13
It's not more than a six hours' journey in the ordinary way.
No Defense, Volume 3.
14
The fruits will be sold in the ordinary way in the prize court.
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
15
The open nature of the country made stalking in the ordinary way impossible.
In the Wilds of Africa
16
She lost her pupils in the ordinary way; she was unlucky.
Memoirs of My Dead Life
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Ordinary way through the time
Ordinary way across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common