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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
locally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ Advice needs to be locally available.
▪ A directory of staff development resources that would be locally available to teachers is planned.
based
▪ Papers relied increasingly on locally based stringers and news agencies.
▪ Day care should be viewed as only part of a strategy and should link in with other locally based resources.
▪ Successful bids by management-employee teams would also help to meet the competition objective by establishing independent, locally based companies.
▪ Employment Training is a locally based programme that first helps you select people with the aptitude and commitment you're looking for.
▪ However, even this view of relatively autonomous, locally based development shares some of the same themes as those identified above.
▪ They would be available to share expertise, offer advice and provide an informed focus for locally based educational advance.
▪ Thriving small settlements must have an active and mostly locally based economy.
▪ This was a proposal for a loose federation of locally based groups.
elected
▪ They demanded new schools, supported by local taxes and managed by locally elected bodies.
produced
▪ The group of the population which was most at risk was young children drinking locally produced milk.
▪ Overvalued currencies kept the price of imported goods low, crowding out locally produced goods.
▪ The cheeseboard offers a good selection of locally produced cheeses such as applewood smoked cheese and the wonderfully named Cornish Yarg.
▪ There is an art gallery in the foyer which hosts regular touring and locally produced exhibitions.
▪ Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire.
▪ Many US-owned maquilas claim to be in the market for locally produced materials and components, backward linkages.
■ VERB
know
▪ Standing in the fields in the centre of the island were two tall stone menhirs, known locally as Jean and Jeanne.
▪ It has bee modernised with a powerful automatic fog-horn known locally as Moaning Minnie.
▪ Large areas of island are covered with thick deposits of black volcanic ash, known locally as picon.
▪ She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities.
▪ It is known locally as a popular place for children to play.
live
▪ The man, who lives locally, won't be identified.
▪ In under ten days her mother would be living locally.
▪ Anyone living locally who wishes to become involved with any of the current projects will be warmly welcomed.
▪ Many will live locally, it is predicted.
▪ The body of Edward Stone, 27, an experienced climber who lived locally, was found half way up the peak.
▪ I do not think we have enough police living locally.
make
▪ A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers.
▪ Local patients, investigators, and resources are known only to local people, and assessments must be made locally.
▪ These problems are national and should be addressed centrally but efforts could also be made locally.
▪ The twelve enamel plaques were made in Byzantium during the tenth century, but the roundels were made locally at Regensburg.
produce
▪ Prices of fish, eggs, chicken and other locally produced staples are low.
▪ Most towns had a plant or two to spin locally produced cocoons into thread.
▪ The conference included a two-day display of high-technology products produced locally.
▪ A lot of the materials, such as concrete aggregate, must be produced locally because shipping costs would be exorbitant.
▪ This locally produced album features simple arrangements of traditional and original Christmas songs.
use
▪ There were many types of chamber kiln including the Batchelor Kiln which was used locally.
▪ The viaduct was built by Thomas Brassey to a design by Lewis Cubbitt, using locally made bricks, in 1848-50.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ locally elected governments
▪ Microtech employs 1300 workers locally.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, locally organised, imaginative initiatives to introduce pupils to science and careers involving the application of science.
▪ Half board for second week is compulsory and payable locally.
▪ He's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel.
▪ It is cruciform and aisleless, built of locally quarried ashlar stone.
▪ It made coping with locally severe unemployment difficult, since only the resources of the rate-paying parishioners could be drawn on.
▪ The limitations of what is available for you locally can also be part of this pain.
▪ The series is not yet shown in New Zealand, so Sorbo is a relative unknown locally.
▪ We've now got 150 members locally, with membership at 31,000 nationwide.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locally

Locally \Lo"cal*ly\, adv. With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
locally

mid-15c., from local (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
locally

adv. With respect to place; in place; as, to be '''locally''' separated or distant

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WordNet
locally

  1. adv. by a particular locality; "it was locally decided"

  2. to a restricted area of the body; "apply this medicine topically" [syn: topically]

Usage examples of "locally".

He began his treatment by putting me on a severe regimen, ordering baths, and applying mercury locally.

He would camp out in the cave overnight to await the precise moment of the winter solstice, half fearing and half hoping for another one of those fluky winter storms for which the Sleepers were locally infamous.

Much content will be created locally and distributed globally - and vice versa.

The arrangement of festivals, locally, and on Habara as a whole, was always difficult.

The end result was that each moulid was fixed locally on Habara, according to a shifting timetable, and after much discussion and many meetings, and rarely happened twice at exactly the same time, or occurred simultaneously in different places.

The end result was that each moulid was fixed locally on Habara, according to a shifting timetable, and after much discussion and many meetings, and rarely happened twice at exactly the same time, or else occurred simultaneously in different places.

Preparations of antimony in an ointment applied locally have caused necrosis, particularly of the cranium, and Hebra has long since denounced the use of tartar emetic ointment in affections of the scalp.

These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs.

The only natural scenery along the way is a microvalley between two lame hills just past the Ridgecrest Mall, a microvalley known locally as the Onion Canyon after the crop that used to grow there before an auto-mall rezoning both deleted and reformatted the landscape.

I realized that this Ymber cult was faring better locally than the two visiting the miseries on me.

Perhaps there would be exploitive creatures who came to take advantage of the unique qualities of science, or to steal the Phazite that powered the magic locally.

Hence, what is assumed must be presupposed to the assumption, as what is moved locally is presupposed to the motion.

Most of it was available locally, but the recompression chamber was more difficult.

Lemma: that our universe can be considered as a collection of locally shrinkable continua each containing at least one non-degenerating element.

Fifteen or so saronged Indonesian tourists were waiting on the other side of the gate, conversing in Bahasa pidgin and sipping locally bottled designer water.