I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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 monthly/weekly meeting
▪ a routine weekly meeting with the managing director
a weekly/daily/monthly column
▪ Her daily column covered a wide range of topics.
an annual/monthly/weekly budget
▪ The organization has an annual budget of $24 million.
an annual/monthly/weekly cycle (=the related events that repeat themselves every year, month etc)
▪ the annual cycle of planting and harvesting crops
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
▪ The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
be paid weekly/monthly
▪ Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.
hourly/weekly/monthly earnings
▪ Some football players have weekly earnings of over £50,000.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
▪ Our annual rent is just over $15000.
the hourly/weekly rate (=the amount someone is paid per hour or per week)
▪ Women have lower hourly rates of pay than men.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
twice
▪ The medium was changed twice weekly.
▪ Each week, sometimes twice weekly, food stores advertise their specials in the local newspapers.
▪ Standards of service are very high, with twice weekly linen changes.
▪ Through his twice weekly plasma sales, Willingham has helped Scheard and others buy clothes and food or pay bus fare.
▪ He managed with twice weekly meals on wheels, and social work support.
▪ Spray with a soap-based insecticide twice weekly until clear.
▪ It was painted purple with the company name in white and made the journey to London twice weekly.
▪ Most of the schools welcomed parents hearing children read, from once or twice weekly to nightly.
■ NOUN
basis
▪ We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis.
▪ A president who works hard on issues like these will not see his ratings go up on weekly basis.
▪ Fairness demanded that the throne be rotated among the players, usually on a weekly basis.
▪ Out here you have to prove yourself on a daily basis; a weekly basis.
▪ The school might, for example, recommend that musical activity takes place on a weekly basis.
▪ While at the work site, students keep journals that their supervisors read and annotate on a weekly basis.
▪ Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
▪ After-care sessions initially on a weekly basis but later less frequently, are recommended for up to two years.
benefit
▪ Any overpayment of weekly benefit should be deducted from the capital benefit.
▪ He registered with Langbaurgh housing authority, but with weekly benefit of about £33, accommodation was difficult to find.
▪ Payment under items 1, 2 or 3 of the Policy would stop any weekly benefit which was being paid.
▪ The weekly benefit payable will be shown in the Policy Schedule.
▪ His maximum weekly benefit is 80% of £4.00 £3.20. 2.
class
▪ There's more to Medau than just attending your local weekly class!
▪ Raven ran a weekly class on the New Testament.
column
▪ Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
▪ Six weeks after I got there, my wish to write a weekly column was fulfilled.
▪ Perhaps unbeknown to you, the first lady has been churning out a weekly column since July 30 of last year.
▪ Something of an intellectual among surfers, Lynch has a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper and an air of philosophical detachment.
▪ On top of the weekly columns, Brady has been a writing machine.
▪ He left Hollywood for Seattle, where he wrote a weekly column for the Seattle Times.
▪ Designing Minds is a weekly column exploring home and design issues, ideas and resources.
credit
▪ None of what has been said should be taken to imply criticism of weekly credit in itself.
▪ This generally means mail order, trading checks, and weekly credit traders.
earnings
▪ What rate do you pay? £52.50 or £43.50 depending on your employee's average weekly earnings.
▪ Between 1979 and 1993, a worker with a high school education lost 18. 2 percent in real weekly earnIngs.
▪ His average weekly earnings for four weeks is £54.
▪ How do I work out average weekly earnings?
▪ Figure 9.4 considers male average gross weekly earnings.
▪ The result is the employee's average weekly earnings.
▪ The average weekly earnings of female manual workers amounted to £115.00 in 1987.
▪ The higher rate is 90% of your employee's average weekly earnings.
hours
▪ In Cumbria the average weekly hours claimed by the farmer was 77.
▪ Average weekly hours worked also declined.
income
▪ The difference in weekly income is £29.10.
▪ It is intended to provide a regular weekly income if you do not have enough money to live on.
▪ As with supplementary pension you are supposed to pay for heating out of weekly income.
▪ This will push his weekly income to around £3,000 - an increase of more than £2,000.
▪ Poorer pensioners spend much more of their weekly income on fuel than other households.
interval
▪ Weekly benefits are paid at four weekly intervals, in arrears, following receipt of medical certificates.
▪ After discharge they were reviewed at weekly intervals and the volume of feed consumed was recorded daily throughout the four week period.
journal
▪ In the spring a weekly journal, Bezbozhnik, was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign.
▪ It publishes the weekly journal Science.
magazine
▪ Ferdinand Mount, then the Political Editor of the weekly magazine Spectator, replaced him.
▪ The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine.
▪ Even weekly magazines carry styles to match developments in the law.
▪ She was about to leave Options and start a new weekly magazine called Riva.
market
▪ Doubtless, Salisbury traders benefited from the weekly market despite the disruption to normal traffic.
▪ The Market Charter was obtained in 1602, and weekly markets and three fairs were held.
▪ But I would opt for a self-catering package which enable you to take full advantage of the excellent weekly markets.
▪ They now intend to go back to their original preferred scheme for a twice weekly market in nearby pedestrianised Station Road.
meeting
▪ However, a weekly meeting of the Sectional Heads was held when our planning was thought out.
▪ But nearly weekly meetings since January have produced no decision either way.
▪ Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
▪ What takes place at their weekly meetings is unknown.
▪ The weekly meetings, held on Thursdays, were megalithic in proportion.
▪ Members commit themselves to a weekly meeting and visitations.
▪ My Working Group co-operated very well together, and we enjoyed our weekly meetings.
news
▪ On the news-stands, there were several popular illustrated weekly news and feature magazines: Everybody's, Illustrated, Picture Post.
▪ In 1949 he joined Paris-Match, which was then a new weekly news magazine.
newspaper
▪ Q: You got your start at a weekly newspaper?
▪ Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
▪ From Tuesday weekly newspapers may be left with a burden which, sadly, many will be unable to carry.
▪ Local weekly newspapers: Most towns and the suburbs of large cities have their own weekly newspapers.
paper
▪ The government has agreed to the re-birth of Solidarity's weekly paper.
▪ He approved of young Bruce, both as a boy soprano and ambitious junior reporter on the weekly paper.
▪ In some heavily populated areas there are separate ons of the weekly paper with different titles for neighbouring communities.
▪ Evening and weekly papers faced the stiffest competition at the fringes of their circulation areas.
▪ Regional daily and weekly papers near to the factory and offices.
▪ Provincial dailies got 60 percent or more, and weekly papers 80 percent, at both dates.
▪ The number of towns with a choice of weekly papers was down from 226 in 1961 to about 150 in 1974.
pay
▪ The basic weekly pay for a recruit to the fire service is £243 - rising to £305 for qualified staff.
▪ When we looked at the weekly pay that the workers had been getting in 1980, I was astounded.
▪ Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.
▪ Redman regularly returned his weekly pay of 3s. 4d. to the fabric fund.
▪ Even with overtime £3 15s to £4 would be about their maximum weekly pay.
▪ In 1988, the average gross weekly pay for full-time work was £246 for men, and £164 for women.
▪ The final component in calculating compensation is weekly pay levels.
payment
▪ Just one weekly payment protects all your family!
▪ All figures quoted below are for weekly payments.
▪ If the grant can not meet the whole bill some funeral directors may accept weekly payments.
▪ Benefits were dependent upon past contributions, and the duration of weekly payments to individuals was limited.
rate
▪ The daily rate is the appropriate weekly rate divided by the number of qualifying days in the week. 5.
▪ After that, weekly rates go to $ 627, then to $ 768 per person for two in a one-bedroom villa.
▪ A subcompact weekly rate, excluding taxes, insurance and petrol, can be a mere £55.
▪ Island transport: mainly bicycles on daily or weekly rates.
▪ At 100 percent assessment, the weekly rate of benefit is £71.20.
report
▪ Saracens 5 and here's the coach Keith Richardson with his weekly report.
shopping
▪ The weekly shopping for a family of 4.
▪ They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
▪ Your weekly shopping list will probably change; you need to think about the best ways to do this for you.
▪ Over-packaging adds about ten percent to our weekly shopping bill.
▪ With the introduction of the Barcode Battler, Christmas and weekly shopping might never be the same again.
visit
▪ She guessed that her weekly visits made her a regular, for the keyboard player nodded at her and the guitarist/vocalist grinned.
▪ It was not long before several families from Titagarh began making weekly visits to the mobile dispensary.
▪ Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help - when it was finally arranged - was not enough.
▪ I stay in bed, mostly at home, with weekly visits from a doctor and a nurse who gives me shots.
▪ At their weekly visits, fieldworkers were instructed to refer ill children to the clinics, according to specified criteria.
wage
▪ These values are not primarily the pursuit of small amounts of money paid in a weekly wage.
▪ Officials who packed private restaurants, where the bill for dinner exceeded their weekly wage, were plainly on the take.
▪ If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers.
▪ San Pablo was a small maquila with a history of low-paid outwork at weekly wages averaging 400 pesos.
▪ In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed.
▪ If you are paid a weekly wage, then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on.
▪ But between 1951 and 1962 juvenile weekly wages rose by 83 percent.
▪ His weekly wages at this time were £11.54!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at weekly/20-minute etc intervals
▪ After ingestion of sucrose, breath hydrogen was measured at 20 minute intervals for 160 minutes.
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
▪ weekly ballet lessons
▪ Weekly rates at the hotel start at $627.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each of these may make a daily or weekly contribution which interweave to form a family network.
▪ Moreover, the practice of building vocabulary through weekly spelling tests in elementary school has been largely abandoned.
▪ She would pay for his weekly ticket.
▪ The weekly claims numbers are now running at the highest level since April.
▪ When the survey started in 1975, the average weekly pocket money was 33 pence.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ The average weekly and monthly figures will be based on the adjusted total.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Commercial journals, particularly the weeklies and monthlies, can take rapid decisions, and have a faster turn-round time.
▪ He said the weekly is profitable, but declined to disclose details.
▪ The biggest drop was among the Sundays - a massive 10 million sales - and the weeklies.
▪ The later pattern of weeklies was further complicated by the growth of free sheets.
▪ The local press, particularly the weeklies, aren't usually engaged in sensational journalism.