He said payments would be "back to our normal standards within the next six weeks."

Yet by normal standards her cautious words - she's 64, after all - were no more than simple common sense.

My people are subject to the Army's normal standards for physical fitness, which means he could probably run most of a mile in five minutes.

This does not fit the normal standards of fair play and competition.

Put our normal standards to one side for a moment.

Given its strength, he should be doing much better, by normal standards.

He was now, by any normal standard, a rich man.

The question, he says, "does not meet any normal standards for survey design."

He was often quite coherent, although not by normal human standards.