For her the idea that birds have come from dinosaurs is just common knowledge and there's nothing surprising in that at all."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The paddocks will need water. Some farmers design a path for animals from different paddocks to drink from a common watering place.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The most common answer historians give is that the name came from Samuel Wilson.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The most common cause is pollen from flowering plants and trees.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

"People tend to congregate and be together and the way the common cold virus is transmitted from one person to another is through handshakes,through sneezing, or coughing on one another."

VOA: special.2011.04.20

"Even though the Department of Defense is exempt from the budget freeze, it is not exempt from budget common sense."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

In the past,many common household were recruited items contained lead, everything from water pipes, to drinking vessels, to eating utensils.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj said the current political crisis would not adversely impact its role on the council or prevent it from taking common positions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

In 2009, the foundation collected records from 14 Asian countries, indicating that fractures of the vertebrae are as common in Asia as they are in the West.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

U.S.officials worry that, even if the virus' spread is eventually contained, it could re-emerge months from now during the northern hemisphere's winter flu season, when more than 30,000 Americans die each year from common influenza.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Access to a Caesarean section to relieve the pressure of obstructed labor is the most common way of preventing an unborn child from pressing so tightly in the birth canal that it cuts off blood flow to surrounding tissue.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

No,it's not going to be that. But it does need to basically provide the common talking points so that allied leaders, allied presidents and prime ministers, have on one sheet of paper,one page, a set of common talking points that they can speak from to their people to explain why the alliance matters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11