The Senate guards tradition above all else, and its pork is the old familiar kind: money spent on projects back home, worthy or not.

It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

It's a familiar kind of impatience among pharmaceutical scientists.

When the time came to leave the restaurant, we found ourselves in an unhappily familiar kind of crisis.

Bird song is a very familiar kind of animal behaviour.

The conception of a causal circumstance, although the name may be new, is of a familiar kind.

As restaurants increasingly serve other, less familiar kinds of fish, the retailers will begin carrying them.

Or, since this is a familiar kind of novelistic joke, "the paradox."

He is a calculating politician of a familiar kind in the Conservative Party.

It was just a poor effort, and a familiar kind of game.