The phrase "common affection for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a shared feeling of fondness or love for someone or something. You can use it to describe a group of people who all feel the same way towards someone or something. For example: - We all have a common affection for our hometown. - The students in our class have a common affection for our teacher, Ms. Smith. - Despite their differences, the siblings had a common affection for their father.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Check out our exclusive clip of this week's "Partners" below, which proves that Ali and Louis might actually have something else in common besides their affection for Joe.
Because B knows A, it is reasonable for B to presume that she (B) and C will have something in common, if nothing more than affection for their common friend.
The two couples had almost nothing in common except their great affection for each other.
What these companies have in common, beyond their shared affection for sweeping, barely possible goals, is that they all continue to be led by their founders.
