"Beads like these have been common currency in Africa for a hundred years or more.

Words that were hardly mentioned a few years ago now are common currency, while others have virtually disappeared.

Do bear in mind that what is common currency in your department will mean nothing to anybody else.

But you said yourself just a few moments ago that I've been involved in a world where drugs are common currency.'

The idea that it is common currency among black Americans is overblown.

Tobolsk was not a town where foreigners were common currency.

The words on the pavement were common currency nowadays; although Rita's mother would have found them deeply offensive.

But such sentiments are common currency in gangsta rap.

It was just showboating, as he could express the same concepts adequately enough in words that were common currency.

With his face on a £10 note, Darwin is common currency in Britain.

Presents always seemed to be flying about in that circle; flowers and boxes of sweets were common currency.

Terrorists are common currency in Johnson's novels.

Conflicting stories were common currency in last week's Congressional hearings on the Iran-contra affair.

But many Bahamians profess a deep fatalism in a community where prayer and churchgoing are common currency.

"Sadly no such Act of Parliament exists, although it is common currency in the town that it does.

Secrets were common currency to the Deirus.

Such sentiments were common currency in Jack London's time and he places them in the mouths of characters, not the narrator.

There are considerable differences over the interpretation of the three methodological practices, but in their general form they are common currency amongst Marxists.

Bitterness is common currency.

A variation of this theory is common currency amongst present-day residents of Kaliningrad.

Stories of lovers deceived into believing each other false were common currency in northern Italy in the sixteenth century.

Another influence was Bob Dylan, whose songs were common currency at the time; The Nice interpreted several of them.

But Mr. Lebrecht's assumption that art has a responsibility to respond to crisis is common currency today.

In the following months I learned that sevillanas were common currency in southern Spain; everyone knew at least how to fake the steps.

Some educated men commented: "the coffeehouse was an inappropriate venue for the learned discourse that was common currency to all virtuosity."

The only way is to be strong, to have a common currency.

A large internal market can only work with a common currency.

Anyone who has joined the common currency cannot get out.

A third stage soon after would give this bank full control over a common currency.

There is also an increase in the number of countries joining the common currency.

Is it because the euro area and the common currency have problems?

A common currency and a central bank are longer term goals.

This Union, he and others claim, would include a common currency.

Today your voice is the common currency and we salute you for that.

The common currency has an important role to play in the creation of economic competition.

That is crucial if we are going to be able to continue to have a common currency.

But finding the common currency of language has proved quite difficult.

This description seems to have become common currency among the British public in 1940.

And these conventions are not of common currency throughout a speech community.

The position taken today did not directly deal with creating either a central bank or a common currency.

The common currency is a way of achieving that objective.

Remember: a common currency is not the purpose of life, but at best, a tool to make people happy.

But in a case that has attracted so much attention from the news media, words and their meaning have become the common currency.

European countries now share a common currency known as the euro.

The political situation, however, was not favorable for maintaining a common currency.

Europe' s future cannot remain confined to the market and common currency.

The member states have decided not to create a common currency, as this would mean the loss of some national independence.

In the long-term it also makes all projects for a common currency impossible.

The common currency exchanged between strangers was not worth much.

He promised to hold a national referendum on whether to go into the common currency, if it comes to that.