The phrase "a common affection for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a shared fondness or liking for something among a group of people.
Example: "The community has a common affection for the local park, often organizing events to maintain its beauty."
Alternatives: "a shared love for" or "a mutual fondness for".
The bond held, however, partly through a common affection for their daughter, Angélique, sole survivor of three children, who was born in 1753 and whom Diderot eventually married to Albert de Vandeul, a man of some standing at Langres.
The on-air team, as the name suggests, is a bunch of outsiders drawn together by a common affection for bikes.
Their accents and homelands differed, but the six men inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday expressed a common affection for the family and friends who helped them reach the pinnacle of their sport.
This is a trend with he and I! Though we've found some common ground this morning, in a mutual affection for Keira Knightley.
Mr. Brown maps the odd-couple friendship that developed between Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot, who in Groucho's opinion had three things in common: an affection for good cigars, a love of cats and a weakness for puns.
They also have one thing in common: an affection for the older, architecturally diverse homes that distinguish New Brighton and its surrounding north shore communities from the newer construction common to Staten Island's south shore.
"What I said was that it's like a family, where we have a common worldview, deep affection for one another, and sometimes we squabble," Mr. Spitzer told reporters after the meeting.
Based on that, Menon proposed a triple network model which helps in finding a common framework for understanding cognitive and affection disorders [ 4].
We followed a common practice for finding linked loci of a complex disorder with an unclear classification between the different subtypes of the disorder and considered three affection status models (ASMs) [ 18].
It is a tale that could happen only in a city that has an extraordinary affection for dogs, attached residential buildings and a government that, some contend, seems to suffer lapses in common sense.
Fallows has an endearing affection for these laobaixing, these common folk.
