Collocations for usual - adj.

be
become

quite (esp. BrE), very (esp. AmE)
Don't worry—it's quite usual to have a few problems at first.
It's very usual for people to leave books and papers behind.

far from
This kind of reaction is far from usual in children of this age.

for
It's usual for the man to propose marriage.

as per usual (informal)
Everyone blamed me as per usual.

as usual, like usual (= in the same way as what happens most of the time or in most cases)
Steve, as usual, was the last to arrive.

business as usual (= things will continue as normal in spite of a difficult situation)
It's business as usual at the factory, even while investigators sift through the bomb wreckage.

in the usual way
The metal can then be painted in the usual way.

Usual is used with these nouns:
array, assortment, bedtime, bravado, channel, cliché, clientele, convention, course, dosage, dose, excuse, fare, fashion, fate, fee, gang, habit, haunt, kind, manner, method, mode, pattern, practice, preliminary, procedure, rate, remedy, reply, routine, run, seat, self, sense, spelling, standard, stereotype, suspect, thing, trappings