I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a daily commuter
▪ Thousands of daily commuters pour into the city.
a daily dose
▪ The study shows that a daily dose of aspirin may reduce the risk of developing bowel cancer.
a daily inspection
▪ A young airman had carried out the daily inspection of the instruments.
a daily paper
▪ Which of these daily papers do you usually read?
a daily/everyday chore
▪ When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.
a daily/weekly diary
▪ Clarke kept a daily diary of San Franciscan life.
a daily/weekly/Sunday newspaper (=one that is published every day/week/Sunday)
▪ Do you get a daily newspaper?
a weekly/daily/monthly column
▪ Her daily column covered a wide range of topics.
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
▪ The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
daily allowance
▪ the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C
daily dosage
▪ The daily dosage is steadily reduced over several weeks.
daily grind
▪ workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory
daily ritual
▪ the daily ritual of mealtimes
day-to-day/daily contact
▪ I like my job because it involves day-to-day contact with clients.
everyday/daily/day-to-day existence (=someone's normal life that is the same most days)
▪ He saw drugs as a way of escaping the tedium of his everyday existence.
regular/daily exercise
▪ Taking regular exercise is the best way to improve your overall health.
sb's daily calories (=that someone eats every day)
▪ Americans get 22% of their daily calories from snacks.
sb’s daily routine
▪ Make exercise part of your daily routine.
sb’s daily work (=the work someone does every day)
▪ When they finished their daily work they would be too tired for much except rest.
the hourly/daily/monthly etc wage
▪ The average daily wage was £100.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Ashbee and his influential friends met or corresponded almost daily to pursue their tastes.
▪ Not surprisingly, she advocates a balance, but one so delicate as to require almost daily adjustment.
▪ Separatism is an exhausting act of faith, and because of insistent pressure on you to repent, it requires almost daily reaffirmation.
▪ The parents need to have support on an almost daily basis.
▪ But on an almost daily basis I think about suicide.
▪ Cynics may call it lip service, considering the almost daily stream of new fund-raising allegations stemming from his 1996 campaign.
▪ Events were by now overtaking the scientists almost daily.
▪ It was all on offer as scripts began arriving almost daily.
twice
▪ This twice daily peristalsis creates tidal currents every six hours, pushing sea water first north, then south.
▪ Six capsules of each treatment were given twice daily for 16 weeks.
▪ Both forms were completed twice daily at home for 14 days.
▪ He also became a great favourite with the occupants of the local school bus, which passed his garden gate twice daily.
▪ The mainstay of treatment is a twice daily form of physiotherapy, usually done by the child's parents.
▪ Octreotide is usually given by intermittent subcutaneous injection of 100-500 µg twice daily or three times daily.
▪ On average, she vomited twice daily and was obsessed with dieting.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ They record and reflect on daily activities, delicately holding within the innocent seeming image much that is intimate.
▪ They improved walking speed, stair climbing, balance and spontaneous daily activity.
▪ Behind the daily activities of those engaged in such formal community care lie stressful moral and practical dilemmas.
▪ The number does not vary when comparing intelligence, mental health, or level of daily activIty.
▪ It influences the manager's daily activities and decisions and can have extremely beneficial results for the organization.
▪ Four of five people with clinical depression can improve and resume daily activity, usually within weeks.
▪ Do you prefer to sandwich your exercise in along with your daily activities or to set aside time exclusively for exercise? 5.
▪ It involves the use of celestial recurrences for the practical purpose of regulating daily activity.
allowance
▪ Many companies institutionalize dishonesty and exploitation of expenses by paying daily allowances.
▪ Know your average daily allowance for meat.
▪ In Long Kesh Prison, fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk.
▪ The current recommended daily allowance for vitamin E is 30 milligrams a day.
▪ This time she asked Congress to approve a 100 percent increase in soldiers' daily allowance.
▪ Nutritional deficiency must be avoided by providing the recommended daily allowance of protein in the evening meal and later in the day.
▪ Few men could fail to shed weight at a satisfactory rate on a daily allowance of 1,500 calories.
▪ The recommended daily allowance of B12 is three milligrams daily.
average
▪ It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles.
▪ Trading was an estimated 544 million shares, up from the three-month daily average of 430 million shares.
▪ An estimated 670 million shares changed hands, up from a six-month daily average of 422 million.
▪ For the week, the daily average was 11. 21 billion baht.
basis
▪ Social workers are inspecting the school on a daily basis, and have uncovered complaints about care and management practices.
▪ Part of the key to the food's magnificent taste is that Shaheen talks to his purveyors on a daily basis.
▪ How much better to introduce a discipline that gives these benefits on a daily basis.
▪ The parents need to have support on an almost daily basis.
▪ Giving extra pocket money for good work on a daily basis is far more effective.
▪ Out here you have to prove yourself on a daily basis; a weekly basis.
▪ Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session.
▪ As a result, they need to be used on a daily basis, even though you are not having any symptoms.
bread
▪ We heard this music - Mahler, Webern, Schoenberg - a great deal; it was our daily bread.
▪ For our daily bread accept our praise and hear our prayer.
▪ Murders, theft, rape, calumnies, graft - our daily bread.
▪ No seeker after truth should doubt that his daily bread will be provided.
▪ Our daily bread is concocted by chemists who do not sleep easy at night.
▪ It is our daily bread that we earn when we work.
business
▪ With nothing better to do, I sat down in the bar and observed people going about their daily business.
▪ During the day, neurons fire frequently as we go about our daily business.
▪ People and cars and buses were scurrying about their daily business.
▪ The overload of urgent daily business constantly distracts teachers in their attempts to step back to examine underlying causes and long-term problems.
▪ The Highlands are teeming with fascinating creatures, and witnessing any of them going about their daily business is an exciting privilege.
▪ Debates on other matters A great deal of the normal daily business of Parliament is devoted to debates on official business other than legislation.
contact
▪ There is sometimes a tendency for a generalist service to expand into specialisms with which it is in daily contact.
▪ The daily contact with them was unreal.
▪ It was clear that some clients would let their whole lives revolve around daily contact with their dealers.
▪ Several of these have daily contact with the general public.
▪ His work and its stresses, his success, and his daily contacts are the important news.
diet
▪ Like vitamins, they can not be manufactured by the body, so they must be provided in our daily diet.
▪ Your daily diet should be no more than 30 percent fat.
▪ Here are some goodies you can work into your daily diet.
▪ Why is the potato so important in our daily diet? 2.
▪ In order to ensure that enough glycogen is present for training, carbohydrates should make up approximately half of your daily diet.
▪ If you are unsure about the adequacy of your daily diet, look at the list of symptoms below.
▪ Lack of complex carbohydrates in the daily diet is very often the cause of sportspeople feeling under par.
▪ The daily diet in 1990 for executives of all Westernized economies is rich with the language of intense change.
dose
▪ These regimens provide near equal daily doses of 5-ASA.
▪ Take three daily doses of pleasure.
▪ Take a daily dose of beta carotene which your body turns into vitamin A, as added protection for sensitive skin.
▪ They are joined by smart couples in four-wheel-drive vehicles seeking their daily dose.
intake
▪ The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that stable workers could have been exposed to as much as 190 times the acceptable daily intake.
▪ The panel stressed that these nutrients are important for good health and that a minimum daily intake is important.
▪ So how do we eat the rest of our daily intake of fat?
▪ The daily intake should be divided into at least three doses because of the short half-life.
▪ It appeared that, in terms of weight, it was roughly the equivalent of an agricultural labourer's daily intake of rice.
▪ The usual daily intake of potassium is 70 to 140 mEq.
▪ The recommended daily intake of water to help flush away toxins is 2 litres-so sip constantly all day long.
▪ It will analyze and graph your daily intake and compare it with the recommended dietary allowances set by the government.
life
▪ This film's great achievement is to place political betrayals and inter-family conflicts within the ambience of daily life.
▪ Just smile politely and proceed with your daily life.
▪ He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you don't realise what he goes through.
▪ The country was on the brink of war; uncertainty permeated every aspect of daily life.
▪ She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life.
▪ It contrasts sharply with our frantic, daily lives.
▪ He finds deep meaning in tiny pictures from daily life and satire which were often little more than space-fillers.
▪ Political reporters received news releases about how sexuality should be expressed more freely in daily life.
newspaper
▪ In case of public tender, the invitation must be published in at least two daily newspapers with national circulation.
▪ The result is all too dismally on display in our daily newspapers and on our television screens.
▪ The current revolution in the newspaper industry has highlighted the growing use of new technology to produce daily newspapers.
▪ Miss N'Grabbit slapped a copy of the daily newspaper on to the polished alloy boardroom table of Mild County Enterprises.
▪ When I was growing up, there were at least six daily newspapers in the house.
▪ This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper.
▪ Regional daily newspaper transport and industrial editor.
paper
▪ A day or two later we were enlightened - Dagbladdet is the name of the daily paper.
▪ The daily papers teemed with the dreary records of secession....
▪ Concentration of ownership increased both within particular media, from national daily papers to local radio, and between them.
▪ The Wall Street Journal boasts the largest daily paper circulation, a little less than two million.
▪ No fewer than twenty-two countries were without any printed daily paper whatsoever.
▪ The daily paper ran job ads.
▪ Sources at the IoS suggest the merged news operation with the daily paper has improved the Sunday's edge.
▪ Reports in the daily papers said this was legal.
press
▪ In those days, much of the daily press was literally for sale.
▪ The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport.
▪ Later in the week, he occupied his own table during the daily press sessions at the team hotel.
▪ Radio was only rarely mentioned in the columns of the daily press.
▪ Darlington LibDem man Peter Bergg, meanwhile, launched his daily Press conference yesterday with an audience of one.
rate
▪ The daily rate is the appropriate weekly rate divided by the number of qualifying days in the week. 5.
▪ In the second test zone, oil and gas flowed at daily rates of 1,750 barrels and 13.6 million cubic feet respectively.
▪ Most of the dressers were on a basic daily rate but some were paid on a measure of their work done.
▪ Scenic walks are included in the modest daily rate.
▪ The firm's daily rate is £69 with a larger Mercedes 230 priced at £110.
rhythm
▪ We are all aware to some degree of the daily rhythms of nature around us.
▪ After menopause theses daily rhythms decline in amplitude towards zero.
▪ The rat does not immediately adjust its daily rhythm to the melatonin.
▪ Rhythms in old age With increasing age, our daily rhythms begin to change.
▪ The daily rhythm was well marked.
▪ In some children, the development of daily rhythms is poor.
▪ What happens to the daily rhythms under such circumstances?
ritual
▪ Profit warnings have become a daily ritual.
▪ That will also help establish your telephone call as a daily ritual for connection while you are away.
▪ Letters avoid this, which is why writing them becomes such an important part of the daily ritual.
▪ It was a daily ritual to continue for many years.
round
▪ For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster.
▪ After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
▪ It seems J.F. Cooper played his daily rounds with only five clubs!
routine
▪ The starlings' daily routine in the Park begins at dawn.
▪ The daily routine went something like this.
▪ In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
▪ Have your child try to be silent for some time while you go about your daily routine.
▪ Their daily routines are starting to reflect their preferences and abilities and to include a level of personal responsibility.
▪ Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
▪ In one sense he was right; the trip itself was a wonderful change from her daily routine too.
▪ Still, others managed to maintain their daily routines.
task
▪ Going about their daily tasks, the people of these villages must have grown tired of the tramp of marching feet.
▪ Checking the nests and weighing the eggs and chicks is a daily task for Spendelow and his five research assistants.
▪ She is responsible for helping the patient and carers in daily tasks such as washing, bathing and going to the toilet.
▪ But there are professionals for whom this is a daily task, for them Trend have made an adjustable letter box template.
▪ Emptying the bucket and burying the contents in the garden was a daily task for my father.
▪ Cycling to work is particularly beneficial because it combines physical exercise with an essential daily task.
▪ Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks.
volume
▪ These theories predict a positive relationship between daily volume and volatility, as illustrated in Fig. 8.4.
▪ Volume was 7. 9 million shares, more than three times the average daily volume during the past three months.
▪ Such a high daily volume of transactions is currently not feasible because of the overhead involved.
▪ Average daily volume the past three months was 7. 4 million shares.
▪ The Brady bond market has grown to a volume 50 times greater than the daily volume in shares, traders said.
▪ Nearly 27 million shares traded Friday, higher than the three-month average daily volume of 12. 2 million shares.
work
▪ The Regulations apply only where computer screens are habitually used by one or more employees as a significant part of daily work.
▪ All that energy, the hope of tangible improvements in the way daily work is carried out.
▪ However, Gaver reports that quite a few people within Apple use his SonicFinder in their daily work.
▪ The bread and wine are symbols of our daily life, just as the collection is a symbol of our daily work.
▪ This section gives a detailed breakdown of what may be required in your daily work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on a regular/daily/weekly etc basis
▪ Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.
▪ Because of other demands on his time, the Chancellor will not usually be a leading participant on a regular basis.
▪ Both will prevent you from burning and tanning, provided they are reapplied on a regular basis.
▪ Counselling, information and advice giving, respite from caring on a regular basis can all help.
▪ I hear there are very few companies in our industry who carry out a comprehensive performance review on a regular basis.
▪ If you like going to concerts, do so on a regular basis. 3.
▪ Neither you nor I nor most people embrace behavior change on a regular basis.
▪ The president often raises it before heavily female audiences but not on a regular basis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a daily newspaper
▪ He has a daily radio show on KQFB.
▪ The daily rate for parking downtown is $15.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Average daily share volume set a record at 346 million shares a day, according to preliminary data from the exchange.
▪ How many weary souls could have been nourished from his daily witness to the Lord?
▪ Parliamentary proceedings are written up and published in the daily Hansard.
▪ She was the Imp Second in the 1st Badgeworth Pack, and was keen on doing her daily good turn.
▪ The daily log enables the player to see each bit of progress or lack of it.
▪ Today the manager of personnel makes a point of sitting next to his old friend on the daily commuter train.
▪ You will need to record your daily weight.
II.adverbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
arrive
▪ Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily.
open
▪ Open daily 9.30 a.m. -6 p.m.
use
▪ Ricotta has a very short life and should be bought and used daily.
▪ The Limited tracks consumer preferences daily using point-of-sale computers.
▪ Businesses daily use the library facility for their own research and development.
▪ But it is a middle ground that hundreds of police officers use daily.
▪ Many studies have used daily closing prices.
▪ The relaxation programme on the tape can be used daily to help control headaches.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The zoo is open daily, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hours are 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily.
▪ Mungo nodded, calling to mind a diabetic schoolfriend who had to inject himself daily.
▪ My grandparents stayed at a nearby motel and visited daily, along with my father.
▪ Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily.
▪ Software is designed, coded, and tested daily, in a hundred cubicles, as each person works on it.
▪ The Lower Emotional Centre is where we function daily in our emotional life.
▪ Treves visited him daily, and remarked on the sweetness of his nature and his intelligence.
▪ You used to shop daily, now it's weekly.
III.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ In Jakarta, average daily trading is up about 25 percent from 1995.
▪ Trading volume exceeded 1. 1 million shares -- almost four times the average daily trading for the past six months.
▪ That compares with three-month average daily trading volume of 570, 000 shares.
▪ Trading was 401 million shares, down from the average daily trading for the last three months of 435 million shares.
national
▪ The national dailies can be dismissed quickly, especially the tabloids.
▪ The Journal last year accelerated its evolution from national business daily to global one.
▪ This contributed also to persistent readership duplication, with the average middle-class reader in the 1960s still reading about 1.25 national dailies.
▪ In 1920, the circulation of the provincial morning and evening papers was still one-third greater than the national dailies.
▪ He would have reached it sooner but for the throng of reporters from the national dailies who had accosted him in the street.
▪ The national dailies loved this and immediately jumped on Morrissey's back in a typical display of hounding.
▪ The national dailies peaked later, in 1957, but fluctuated within a comparatively narrow range.
open
▪ The line is open daily through Dec. 31.
▪ Admission to all the museums is free; all are open daily during daylight hours.
popular
▪ The Sun covers more cases compared with the other popular dailies.
▪ Now in the popular dailies there is, on average, a case a week.
▪ They fall into four main categories: popular dailies, quality dailies, national Sundays, and local papers.
■ NOUN
business
▪ It is the global business daily, a role it has grown into over the past two decades.
▪ The Journal last year accelerated its evolution from national business daily to global one.
▪ This Journal role as global business daily mirrors its traditional national one.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the dailies reported the news the next day.
▪ Last year, the two major state-owned dailies were auctioned off to private owners.
▪ Most involved both dailies and Sundays.