The phrase "a couple of common" is not complete and lacks context, making it unclear in written English.
It could be used when referring to a few common items or concepts, but it needs to be followed by a noun to be meaningful.
Example: "There are a couple of common mistakes that people make when learning a new language."
Alternatives: "a few typical" or "several usual".
Using barnyard language is certainly not a Mexican phenomenon, he said, unleashing a couple of common American curse words to make his point.
Mr. Mitchell said that a couple of common themes had emerged in numerous meetings he had with people who were affected by the attacks.
After Papini went missing, the Shasta County sheriff's department appears to have considered just a couple of common scenarios – either that her husband had done her harm (he was quickly cleared as a suspect) or that she had walked out on her life, staging an attack so she could start a new life somewhere else.
This avoidance is particularly frustrating given the scant chance that Congress will revisit the teenage suicide issue anytime soon, and the fact that it doesn't take a brain surgeon -- just a lowly editorial writer -- to see a couple of common sense steps that Congress could have taken to protect kids, and didn't take.
Mr. Hibbs, using data from 1952 through 2008, claims to be able to explain almost 90 percent of the variance in presidential election results based on these variables alone, missing the results by just a point or two on average: There are a couple of common critiques of this model.
The Stinky controller is not attempting to do everything, just a couple of common actions.
The boxer gives a couple of common-sense answers to questions: he refutes the contention that boxing is a sport.
Celtic had themselves been restricted to a couple of Kris Commons half chances until then, but he should have equalised when a precise Van Dijk long ball found the winger behind the defence only for his chip over Ben Williams to find the roof of the net.
