1.  Magnetic media, the most common means of information storage for machine-readable software and data, are notoriously impermanent.

2.  Any wav file, the common means of digitally storing sound in PCs, can be loaded into Mixman.

3.  Deadly pointed sarcasm and a highly developed sense of the absurd are their most common means of expressing mistrust.

4.  He noted that Social Security numbers never were supposed to become common means of identification.

5.  Injection drug use is the most common means of transmitting the hepatitis C virus.

6.  It is a common means of buying properties in Hong Kong.

7.  Most men in the Asian and Pacific Islander community contract HIV through sex with other men, with IV drug use the second most common means of transmission.

8.  Probably the most common means of stirring up righteous anger is to accuse the entertainment industry of placing subliminal messages in its offerings.

9.  That is a good thing, because by far the most common means of obliterating important data are not are not system failure but stupid human errors.

10.  The arrangement, known as code-sharing, has become a common means of service expansion among international carriers.