"reached a common understanding" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when two or more people have agreed on a certain idea or action. For example, "After a long negotiation, the two sides finally reached a common understanding on how to proceed."
I kept trying to tell her I was a reporter and I think we finally reached a common understanding of one another but not before I'd talked her down to $18.60 per unit for only 500 of them.
Prior to the assessment, the two reviewers studied the instrument and reached a common understanding of the items.
In the qualitative part of the study, the members of the focus group reached a common understanding that the differences in the numbers of admissions between the municipalities depended largely upon the demographic and socio-economic variables of the inhabitants.
Edison typically works closely with local boards to reach a common understanding about the goals for the schools we operate.
"We have worked collaboratively to reach a common understanding regarding the order that will resolve our short-term issues," he said.
"We still believe the family can come together to reach a common understanding of their father's last wishes," he said.
But since the group finds it urgent to reach a common understanding, pressure toward acceptance of a favoured version grows as the rumour process expands.
At the very least, dialogue seeking to reach a common understanding about how states should behave would crystallise where we have significant problems or form the basis for building trust, confidence and transparency.
We would say, 'That's another one for the screenplay.' " With Graham, Egan often had the uncanny feeling "that you can't use language to reach a common understanding.
"Perhaps at this point in time this is worth saying more than anything else: we are prepared to fight if what is at stake is whether we try to re solve issues in the world by talking to people, by negotiating, by reaching a common understanding, or whether we let the extremists, the terrorists, the fanatics determine our fate," he said.
As time evolves the schedulers reach a common understanding of resource usage and there are no further updates to transmission schedules, see Figure 3.
