In my years of caring for pregnant women before we had scans to determine the sex of their babies, this was one of the commonest questions they asked.
It is the third commonest cause of premature death in the UK.
Paracetamol overdose is the commonest cause of acute liver failure (a rare condition).
The American authorities do not think mice and rats are worth counting and, as these are the commonest laboratory animals, the true figure is much higher.
The commonest system is to sell stickers or tags which householders attach to rubbish bags or cans.
The commonest, and most controversial, is the idea that Yisrael Beiteinu could join the government; its head, Avigdor Lieberman, has advocated stripping some Palestinian Israelis of their citizenship and transferring the towns they live in to the Palestinian Authority.
Of the various religious and cultural questions that businesses and other employers have to cope with, whether in managing their own staff or tailoring their products and services, dietary taboos based on faith, especially seasonal taboos, are among the commonest and most sensitive.
But General Atlantic's Steve Denning points out that GE's continued stake gives it an interest in selling for a fair value".Captive" BPO operations have been among the commonest vehicles for moving work offshore, especially among banks.
ALZHEIMER'S disease is by far the commonest form of dementia.
The commonest reason for IT failures is that custom-made systems are built to fit existing ways of working.
Estradiol, the commonest variety of the hormone, acts on two types of receptors, ER-alpha and ER-beta.
