noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 14-day/six-month etc visa
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Special 10-day visas were issued to cover the time of the conference.
a 24-hour/2-day etc bug
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The doctor says it’s just a 24-hour bug.
a cold night/day
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It was a cold night with a starlit sky.
a day centre British English (= where old, sick etc people can go during the day to be looked after )
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A new day centre for the over 70s has recently opened.
a day of the week
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Friday is our busiest day of the week.
a day school (= a school where children go during the day but go home in the evenings )
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The school is both a boarding school and a day school.
a day shift
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He’s going to be on day shifts for five days.
a day trip (= when you go somewhere for pleasure and come back the same day )
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Take a day trip to York, which is just 15 miles away.
a fine day/morning/evening
a free day/morning/half-hour etc
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I haven’t got a free day this week.
a fun day/evening etc
a hard day
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After a hard day at work, I just want to come home and put my feet up.
a rest day/period
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The crew had a three hour rest period before their next flight.
a rough day/week etc
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He’s had a rough week at work.
a sad day/time
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I’m really disappointed that this happened. It’s a sad day for football.
a summer's day/evening ( also a summer day/evening )
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It was a beautiful summer's day.
a vacation day (= a day away from work on vacation )
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You could take a sick day or a vacation day.
all your life/all day/all year etc (= during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc )
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He had worked all his life in the mine.
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The boys played video games all day.
April Fools' Day
as plain as day/the nose on your face (= very clear )
as the days/weeks/years go by
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As the weeks went by, I became more and more worried.
bad hair day
be on day/night shifts (= be working a series of day or night shifts )
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He’s on night shifts all next week.
be paid by the hour/day/week
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I was working on a building site, being paid by the hour.
big day (= a day when an important event will happen )
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Everyone was getting ready for the big day .
black day
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It’s been another black day for the car industry, with more job losses announced.
Boxing Day
busy day
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a busy day
chilly day/night/evening etc
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a chilly November morning
Christmas Day
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I always spend Christmas Day with my family.
day and night/night and day (= all the time )
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The phones rang day and night.
day and night/night and day (= all the time )
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The phones rang day and night.
day boy
day camp
day care centre/services/facilities
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subsidized day care facilities
day care
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subsidized day care facilities
day centre
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a local day centre for homeless people
day girl
day job
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I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
day nursery
day of judgement
day of reckoning
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We know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes.
day off
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On my days off, you’ll usually find me out in the back garden.
day off
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‘Going to work today, mum?’ ‘No. It’s my day off today.'
Day One Christian Ministries
day pupil
day release
day return
day room
day school
day trading
day trip
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My grandparents took me on a day trip to Blackpool.
day/date/time of purchase
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This product should be consumed on the day of purchase.
days of yore
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in days of yore
days/weeks etc afterwards
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The experience haunted me for years afterwards .
dog days
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Few opera houses survived the dog days of the 1980s.
duvet day
each day/week/month etc (= on each day, in each week etc )
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a disease that affects about 10 million people each year
easy day/week etc
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She had a nice easy day at home.
election day/night (= the day or night when people are voting and the votes are being counted )
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We urge all our supporters to get out and vote on election night.
enter its third week/sixth day/second year etc
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The talks have now entered their third week.
every day/week/month etc (= at least once on each day, in each week etc )
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They see each other every day.
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Richard visits his mother every week.
every few days/weeks etc
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The plants need to be watered every few days.
every few seconds/ten days etc
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Re-apply your sunscreen every two hours.
fast day
fateful day/night/year etc
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The goalkeeper on that fateful day in 1954 was Fred Martin.
Father's Day
field day
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The newspapers had a field day when the trial finished.
fill your time/the days etc (with sth)
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I have no trouble filling my time.
forever and a day
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The meeting seemed to go on forever and a day .
golden years/days etc
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the golden years of childhood
Good day to you
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I must get back. Good day to you .
good day
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I must get back. Good day to you .
good deed for the day (= something good you try to do for someone else every day )
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Well, that’s my good deed for the day .
half day
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Friday is my half day off.
Hardly a day passes without (= there is bad news almost every day )
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Hardly a day passes without more bad news about the economy .
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by without/when (= used to say that something happens almost every day, week etc )
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Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by
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Hardly a week goes by without some food scare being reported in the media.
have a good time/day/weekend etc
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Did you have a good vacation?
having an off day
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Brian never usually loses his temper – he must be having an off day .
in as many days/weeks/games etc
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A great trip! We visited five countries in as many days in five days .
in days/times/years etc gone by (= in the past )
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These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by.
in his younger days (= when he was younger )
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John was a great footballer in his younger days .
Independence Day (= a day on which a country's independence is celebrated )
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The president was on television giving his Independence Day speech.
Independence Day
Inset day
judgment day
Labor Day
last (sb) two days/three weeks etc
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A good coat will last you ten years.
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Cut flowers will last longer if you put flower food in the water.
later in the day/week/year
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The dentist could fit you in later in the week.
later that day/morning/week etc
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The baby died later that night.
live to see the day
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I never thought I’d live to see the day when women became priests.
lives for the day when
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She lives for the day when she can have a house of her own.
living from day to day (= trying to find enough money each day to buy food etc )
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We struggle on, living from day to day .
living from day to day (= trying to find enough money each day to buy food etc )
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We struggle on, living from day to day .
long day
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It’s been a long day .
lose time/2 days/3 hours etc
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Vital minutes were lost because the ambulance took half an hour to arrive.
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In 1978, 29 million days were lost in industrial action.
market day
May Day
Memorial Day
Midsummer Day
most of the time/most days etc (= usually )
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Most of the time it’s very quiet here.
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Most evenings we just stay in and watch TV.
Mother's Day
name day
New Year's Day
nice day (= good weather )
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It’s such a nice day , why not go for a swim?
not giving up my day job
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I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
open day
Pancake Day
pay sb £200 a week/$100 a day etc
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The cleaners are paid £5 an hour.
polling day
preceding days/weeks/months/years
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income tax paid in preceding years
prize day
quarter day
rainy day
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a cold rainy day in October
red-letter day
Remembrance Day
rue the day
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She learned to rue the day she had met Henri.
saint's day
salad days
sb’s wedding day
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She looked beautiful on her wedding day.
scarcely a day/year/moment etc
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Scarcely a day goes by when I don’t think of him.
snow day
speech day
sports day
still day
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a hot still day
take a day/the afternoon etc off
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Dad took the day off to come with me.
take/have a day off
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I’m taking a few days off before the wedding.
the day before yesterday (= two days ago )
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We only got back from Scotland the day before yesterday .
the day before yesterday
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They arrived the day before yesterday .
the days/dreams/friends etc of sb’s youth
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He had long ago forgotten the dreams of his youth.
the day/time/afternoon etc when
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She remembered the day when Paula had first arrived.
the day/week/year etc after (sth) (= the next day, week etc )
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His car was outside your house the morning after Bob’s engagement party.
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I’ll see you again tomorrow or the day after.
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She retired from politics the year after she received the Nobel Prize.
the early days/months/years of sth (= the period of time near the beginning of something )
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In the early years of our marriage, we lived with my wife’s parents.
the end of the day/week/month etc
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Karen’s returning to the States at the end of the month.
the ensuing days/months/years etc (= the days, months etc after an event )
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The situation deteriorated over the ensuing weeks.
the first thing/time/day etc
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The first time I flew on a plane I was really nervous.
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In the first year, all students take five courses.
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He said the first thing that came into his head.
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the first step towards achieving a peace agreement
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There’s a meeting on the first Monday of every month.
the first/last day of term
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On the last day of term we went home early.
the heat of the day
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The locals retreat to their cool houses and sleep during the heat of the day.
the middle of the night/day
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I got a phone call from her in the middle of the night!
the next day/week etc (= on or during the following day, week etc )
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She called me and we arranged to meet the next day.
the school day
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Most children are tired at the end of the school day.
the years/days/months etc ahead
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We do not foresee any major changes in the years ahead.
the/sb’s few days/weeks etc
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She had enjoyed her few days in Monaco.
these days (= at the present period )
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Everyone seems to be in a hurry these days .
three/six etc full days/years/pages etc
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We devote five full days a month to training.
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His pants rose a full three inches off his shoes.
twice a day/week/year etc (= two times in the same day, week etc )
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Letters were delivered twice a week only.
two days/three weeks etc after (sth)
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Ten years after he bought the painting, Carswell discovered that it was a fake.
two days/three weeks/five years etc apart
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Our birthdays are exactly a month apart.
two days/three years etc previously (= two days, three years etc before )
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Six months previously he had smashed up his car.
two hours/three days etc long
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The speech was twenty minutes long.
typical day
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On a typical day , our students go to classes from 7.30 am to 1 pm.
Veterans Day
washing day
work days/nights/weekends etc
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I get paid more if I work nights.
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We’re sometimes expected to work twelve-hour days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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It was one of her bad days .
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Your basic bad hair day at the photo lab.
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She had gone through bad days .
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Anyone can have a bad day .
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Perhaps the worst day of all Sunday.
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She hated Sundays even worse than other days in this house.
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However, on a bad day chaos reigns, and nobody can predict a likely departure time.
early
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I outlined earlier how several of the themes developed in early slave days continue throughout the course of black involvement in sport.
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In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed.
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Not too many records kept on those matters in the early days .
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On top of this there were practical pressures that made those early days very difficult.
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In the early days ordinary mill-stones were used as the clinker was soft and the cement need not be finely ground.
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Nevertheless in the early days many of the other forms of bacteria died off in vast numbers.
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For most couples, circumstances will differ radically from the early days of marriage.
following
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The following day I hired a van, loaded up my possessions and then handed over my keys to the landlord.
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The registry office couldn't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day .
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The following day Gary Burn was arrested by police on suspicion of murder.
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The following day Paula's body was found hanging from a beam in the garage.
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The following day , the class started work on twelve fences.
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On the following day his supporters who had come to Nottingham with him were arrested as well.
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On the following day doctors and medical personnel announced an indefinite strike, which was promptly declared illegal.
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The following day we could knock it off in few hours before returning to base.
long
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And I think Claire's had a long day .
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Smashing down mogul fields all day long , day after day, sounds great to skiers in their 20s.
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He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy.
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When my son and I go home to an already long day , my day is not over by a long shot.
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Next time we'd come prepared for longer , harder days .
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The long day had begun with a mean dumping, but it had almost no end of possibilities, she mused.
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We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared.
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In spite of a longer work day , employees were producing more than ever before.
present
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Is it realistic to talk of a multiplicity of body plans in the Cambrian, far exceeding that of the present day ?
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I was present one day shortly thereafter when he launched into one of his sermons.
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By the end of this stage, social productivity and economic efficiency would have increased at least two-fold compared to the present day .
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Oh, what a lesson to the world it is, even at the present day !
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Of course, all such early introductions have many times been added to if not replaced by others right up to the present day .
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They are ill-adapted, obviously, to the present day: but they survive in isolated areas.
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They should then have told the representatives, all of whom were present the day before, what they intended to do.
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The frustrations arising will be recognised by those engaged upon the contemporary scene, even if present day issues are less picturesque.
previous
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The pair had quarrelled the previous day .
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The previous day Bull took out a newspaper advertisement promising to do better in future.
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I had left my East Anglian home early the previous day with very mixed feelings.
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It was August, and the previous day had been a scorching hot one.
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She had spent her lunch-hours of the two previous days in talking to letting agents.
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Patrick had been accused of overreacting the previous day .
■ NOUN
care
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Linked with the day care centre this service provides specialist home support for carers and suffers. ii Crossroads care Attendant Schemes.
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Assistance with child care costs was also important for 79 percent of job seekers with children in day care.
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Full day care facilities are available on request.
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She spent time at a day care center, a senior center, a food distribution place.
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The State of California shall provide a child welfare building to serve as day care centres for single parents.
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Not all good day care is so costly.
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Just before the move, this person lived in hospital and attended day care .
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Subsidized day care for low-income families costs considerably less.
■ VERB
end
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Biasion's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio.
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The Dow ended the day down 4. 61 points at 6656. 08.
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We ended a perfect day sipping sangria at a cliffside restaurant, relaxing in the spectacular sunset.
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A perfect way to end a perfect cruise day .
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Shares ended the day down 3-31 / 64, at 41-41 / 64.
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Guinness was moving against the market trend, ending the day off 12 at 576p.
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It ends on the day his veteran partner, Murph, retires.
feast
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Canonized 1767; feast day , February 8.
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Also patron of spousal separation. Feast day , March 21.
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Also invoked against appendicitis, intestinal disease, and seasickness. Feast day , June 2.
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Canonized 1622; feast day , July 31.
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Canonized 1925; feast day , October 1.
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Also patron of horsemen and the impoverished. Feast day , November 8.
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Also patron of poets. Feast day , November 23.
last
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A similar Flosse-Vernaudon coalition in 1982 had lasted only 110 days .
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Such meetings can last all day and night, or for the duration of the trip.
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The proceedings are expected to last 2 days .
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For such women, the stimulation from a single cup of coffee might last all day .
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The sergeant has denied assault, in a trial that's expected to last five days .
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A hartal lasts a day , two, or three.
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If the engagement lasts several days , like this festival, the first half drags.
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Barton only lasted one day in the new spot, with its slightly different stance, before the knee began bothering him.
spend
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We spent a few days talking about our friends in Moscow and Leningrad.
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They could be a family spending a day at the beach together.
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Vera could have spent all day nagging a waxwork of Jack and never realised...
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But because of the blizzard nearly all federal workers here were forced to spend another day away from the office.
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Shattered by this thought he had emptied the cocktail cabinet, only to spend the next day nursing a monumental hangover.
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Jane was spending the day with the girls, who were awestruck by it all now.
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Silly-Willie spent most of his days shut in a back room.
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Or you could spend a day playing home handyman as you finally fix all that chronic household deterioration.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Rome wasn't built in a day
a day's march/two weeks' march etc
a nine days' wonder
all day/year/summer etc long
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He just sat at a table ticking off numbers all day long .
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He loved growing things, and in Florida he could work his garden all year long .
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I suppose that if we include New Zealand, we can claim to have new season lamb practically all year long .
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She'd sail the lake all day long if I let her.
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Smashing down mogul fields all day long , day after day, sounds great to skiers in their 20s.
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So all day long her thoughts fought with each other.
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The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went.
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There is just so little meaning in what I do almost all day long !
all the livelong day
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Just went around in my wrapper all the livelong day, my mama would faint.
all-day/all-night
any day/minute etc now
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But any day now , his two agents should be arriving from Aden.
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For the black and white believers who gathered at Azusa Street, the answer was simple: any day now .
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His task force is set to deliver its report any day now .
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It should be 239-any minute now .
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The chip set is currently in pre-production; high volume production is due to begin any day now .
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The right guy would come along any minute now .
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They said they were sending along at once, so they should be here any minute now .
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This bloody border war could flare up any day now .
at the end of the day
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At the end of the day, it's just too much money to spend.
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At the end of the day, the best team won.
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You may be working for yourself but at the end of the day you still have to pay tax on what you earn.
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And that is, at the end of the day, the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful business.
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Because, at the end of the day, professional regulation is in the best interests of both auditors and the public.
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It was not unusual for them to have a snack at the end of the day.
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Prayers must be moved at the end of the day's business, an unpopular time.
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So when Summerchild steps out up Whitehall at the end of the day he is still hugging their secret madness to himself.
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The hours of work were reduced so that the hands were not exhausted at the end of the day.
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We regularly baked some at the end of the day and held a little milk and cookie ritual.
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You realize that at the end of the day.
bad hair day
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I felt miserable and realised the hair of my dreams had turned into the worst bad hair day you could imagine.
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Your basic bad hair day at the photo lab.
be counting (down) the minutes/hours/days
be sb's lucky day
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"Look at the size of the fish I caught!" "It must be your lucky day!"
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Anyway, that day was obviously a lucky day.
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But it was Swindon's lucky day.
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Friday used to be considered a lucky day for weddings in Gerrnany.
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It was not her lucky day.
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Read the stars in the magazines and the paper: Today is your lucky day.
be the order of the day
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Casual clothes will be the order of the day.
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Downsizing was the order of the day, and thousands of jobs were lost.
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Here, too, politics was the order of the day.
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In terms of the international economy, free trade was the order of the day.
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Passive acceptance would be the order of the day.
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Realism was the order of the day on all sides.
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Repression, Government spies and agents provocateur were the order of the day.
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Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day.
before the day/year etc is out
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He might supplant Jones before the year is out .
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There will be many more surprises before the year is out .
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Voice over Meanwhile up to 1,000 more break-ins are expected in Gloucestershire before the year is out .
by day/night
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As the war proceeded, however, several started operating by night and with all the lights blacked out.
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At my home in Tucson, summer days that reach I1O0F may be followed by nights that drop to 700F.
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He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night.
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Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him?
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On the Earth there is regularly more evaporation - effusions of water vapour from the surface - by day than by night.
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The legend concerns three builders of a castle who found that the work they did by day was undone by night.
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Very often bream have remarkably fixed movements and follow the same watery paths day by day.
bygone age/era/days etc
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Bundles of papers and piles of books guarded secrets from a bygone age.
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He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older, bygone age.
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In bygone days the Arms Park had an almost mystical quality for them.
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In bygone days, both railroad and stagecoach deposited visitors in nearby Point Reyes Station.
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Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
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One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse, it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast's history.
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Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
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They appear now to be products of a bygone age.
call it a day
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Come on, guys, let's call it a day.
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Look, we're all tired - let's call it a day.
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We realized we weren't going to get the job finished, so we decided to call it a day.
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But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day.
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By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day.
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He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle.
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It's time I called it a day.
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It would do this twice more and then call it a day.
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Mishak and Malaika call it a day.
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So he agreed to call it a day.
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Time to call it a day, ladies.
come July/next year/the next day etc
day after day/year after year etc
days turned into weeks/months turned into years etc
end your days
every dog has its/his day
filthy weather/night/day
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It looked like being a filthy night.
for days/weeks etc on end
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Big dumps frequently bury lift-control shacks and loading ramps for days on end .
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Chained in an upright stance for weeks on end , iron collars about their necks, with no hope of reprieve.
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He would go off into the mountains for days on end .
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How you hate being shipped off to Long Island for weeks on end during the summer.
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Lately she stays in her house for days on end , goes out only to get food.
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Sometimes he would not leave his room for days on end .
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They'd be talking for days on end .
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Untouched, and for days on end , ignored, he was not a child and not a man.
for years/weeks/days etc to come
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Alice knew then that my father would haunt her for years to come .
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Even a couple of weeks down under will have you waltzing with Matilda for years to come .
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He spoke about that afternoon for days to come .
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It's the players who will suffer because of this, not just this week but for years to come .
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Mr Clark says his department will be collecting poll tax arrears for years to come .
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Prices then gave way to concern driving activity will be reduced for days to come .
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The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come .
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We will be struggling with these issues for years to come .
from day to day/from minute to minute etc
from that/this day/time/moment etc forward
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It was resolved that from this day forward they shall be called by the name of the Veterinary College, London.
give me sth (any day/time)
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I don't like those fancy French desserts. Give me a bowl of chocolate ice cream any day.
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And so this rural scene to which we had escaped gave me a frame of reference to understand my parents.
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Half an hour later, I was in a forest eating the bread they had given me.
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I gave her your number and told her to give me five minutes to warn you first.
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Just give me the one with 80 percent meat, 20 percent filler.
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Minna pulled away and gave me a look that was part triumph and part astonishment.
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Thelma, haggard and overly lipsticked, gave me a refill.
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They'd be sorry for me, they'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist.
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This gave me more information about the teams than any of the other committee members had.
give sb time/a few weeks/all day etc
glory days
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I fondly remember our glory days on the high school football team.
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But, despite their huge resources and the backing of Fiat, their glory days are in the past.
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But, oh, those glory days between ages 2 and 6.
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He plunged himself back into work, and 1998 was his finest period since the glory days of the late 70s.
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In their glory days the Raiders were a lot of things.
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Strange then that all I can think about is those sunny, glory days.
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The 1930s were the glory days.
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Those glory , glory days of Collectivism United are over.
halcyon days
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But the halcyon days were short-lived.
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For a time the halcyon days of 1825 returned.
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He wrote and thanked the Lord Treasurer for restoring his halcyon days, showing his love for Halling.
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Hot, halcyon days of sunshine and vapour trails, butterflies and crammed picnic baskets.
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It was from those halcyon days that the following story dates.
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The post-merger period amounted to halcyon days for Hook Harris.
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Who, in its halcyon days, imagined Carthage a ballroom for the wind?
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You're in a dreary barn of a place, its halcyon days long gone.
have a field day
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Politicians and the media have had a field day with the incident.
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Any bacteria that may be in the food will have a field day and grow.
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In such situations, information biases have a field day....
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The court was agog and the journalists continued to scribble away, knowing they were about to have a field day.
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The slippery, deceptive Mr Clinton will have a field day.
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The tabloid newspapers would have a field day.
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They'd have a field day.
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Well, the crackpots will have a field day with these revelations, Holmes!
have a nice day!
have seen better days
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Ms. Davis's car had certainly seen better days.
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Virginia's car had definitely seen better days.
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We are working at Nanking University, in rather cramped and primitive conditions, for the buildings have seen better days.
heavy schedule/timetable/day etc
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But Joe was concerned about the heavy schedule he had to keep in order to maintain that income.
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I understand the importance of the statement, but we have a heavy day ahead of us.
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Quite apart from the vines, I have a heavy day ahead of me - a lot of serious talking to do.
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The distant baying of a hound tugged at the heavy day.
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We have a very heavy day ahead of us.
high days and holidays
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They were people who really let themselves go on high days and holidays, not likely to fuss about anything left over.
in (the) olden days
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In the olden days, players didn't wear numbers on their jerseys.
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Mainframes were bought by Data Processing Managers in the olden days.
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Often in olden days would I be lifted up, and up, and up, for the sake of my plays.
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We never used to have wind and rain during autumn in the olden days.
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What we used to do - you know in the olden days, the ladies used to use stays.
in 10 days'/five years'/a few minutes' etc time
in all your born days
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Have you ever in all your born days seen the like?
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I never saw so many snarls in all my born days.
in the cold light of day
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I knew that, in the cold light of day, he held all the aces.
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Night-time madness isn't appealing, seen in the cold light of day.
in years/days to come
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Be in no doubt that in years to come , this will become the greatest budget driver's car of them all.
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He is promised a great name in days to come .
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I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration.
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Just think in years to come lots of people could be hunting.
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The combination could make him an even more formidable figure in years to come .
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The housing needs of the elderly, in particular, must be a prominent policy issue in years to come .
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There would be plenty of time for them in years to come , she thought wearily.
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To taxonomy, though, their essence lies in years to come .
it's (a little/bit) late in the day (to do sth)
live to see/fight another day
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A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.
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By his diplomacy, it was true, Gordon had lived to fight another day.
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Having lived to fight another day, Mayer did - with Sam Goldwyn.
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Or will they live to fight another day?
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Pol pot lives to fight another day despite butchering millions of his people.
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The choice for us was whether to take a strike unprepared or to live to fight another day.
make a day/night/evening of it
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Why don't you make a day of it and have lunch with us?
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I had known Sophie for about three months by then, and she insisted on making an evening of it.
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Imagine how lovely it would be - you could take the whole family and make a day of it.
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They make a day of it, tailgating before the game and, weather permitting, after it, too.
many's the time/day etc (that/when)
name the day/date
never let a day/week/year etc go by without doing sth
new life/day/era
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A new life began for the and for many.
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After an experience like that, each new day you are granted has a special meaning.
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Her new life in London had become tainted with the deaths of adoring males.
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Of course it did herald a new era ... in the second division.
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The new era of riots overlapped the nonviolent phase of the black liberation struggle.
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The nation was at a critical turning point, self-consciously entering a new era.
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This is our new life, beginning today.
night and day/day and night
night or day/day or night
off day/week etc
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And besides, pretty women have such off days, don't they?
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If the defense has an off day, the offense usually steps up.
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Obviously the market is having an off day, and this is a marvellous opportunity for you to double your stake.
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On off days he could sound tired, and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length.
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Perhaps Beau was having an off day?
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They must now get a result against free scoring Glenavon next Saturday and rely on Bangor having an off day at Comrades.
one day/morning/year etc
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Everything, all in one year.
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I've always said you'd hurt yourself one day.
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In the tiny northern town of Sugar Hill, the police chief picks one day a month and issues tickets.
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Mr Emery reopened his store one day after his arrest, and said he will sell marijuana seeds by mail order.
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She remembered going with her father one day, and being dreadfully bored.
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That includes one day, May 26, when the collar was invoked twice -- both on declines.
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They may be more concerned about pain, or being sent home from the hospital after one day.
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We prospectively followed up 50 patients with healed ulcers for one year.
pass the time of day (with sb)
pass the time of day (with sb)
passing days/weeks/years etc
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As a young woman, she was pretty, slender, and graceful and she remained so with the passing years.
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Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
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Over the passing years, time had been cruel to nearly everybody else.
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Over the passing years, time had been kind to Caduta Massi.
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The passing years took their toll, of course, and he did go into a decline when Grandmother died.
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Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.
per hour/day/week etc
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A group of mums working on a one day per week rota can look after the arrangements for this.
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Action potentials zip down axons at about 225 miles per hour.
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At room temperature, atoms normally fly around at speeds of hundreds or thousands of miles per hour.
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Make a conscious effort to drink less tea and coffee - about one or two cups per day.
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Pony treks from the East Farm are priced at £8 per hour, 7 days a week.
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Prices vary enormously for group holidays but a typical price would be somewhere in the region of £25 per person per day.
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Singe bikes cost $ 3. 50 per hour, tandems $ 5 per hour.
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These couples averaged 2.44 copulations per week.
save sth for a rainy day
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Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day.
save the day
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Will saved the day by lending me his suit for the interview.
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And not even Glen Hoddle's magic touch could save the day.
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He brings her in, he saves the day.
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It's only five minutes long but it saves the day.
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It was not then too late to save the day....
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The Grand Duke walked impressively in to save the day.
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The servant: Clumsy, but he saved the day.
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Then Linighan saved the day for Town with a crucial tackle on Banger.
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What saves the day, then, is also what ruins the day: difference.
sb's/sth's days are numbered
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But if the church has its way, the garden's days are numbered .
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He knows his days are numbered .
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If Gordon Gekko is still around, his days are numbered .
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My image flickers and your days are numbered .
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Whatever the protests, it seems that Hospital's days are numbered .
see the light (of day)
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But at least none of them saw the light of print - until today's souvenir edition.
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From two blocks away you can see the light radiating up into the sky.
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Get to the back of the drawers and cupboards - areas which don't often see the light of day.
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He say if you afraid of the truth to get back in the shadows cause you never will see the light .
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I can see the light under Marie's door, but there's no noise or nothing.
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I never sold a garment or got an order from this source, I wonder if they saw the light of day.
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I saw the light widening in the window, but I could not make myself get up.
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On a clear night, you could see the lights of Saigon.
see the light of day
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Business contracts go through armies of lawyers before they see the light of day.
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Most observers predict the bill won't see the light of day until at least January.
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And eventually, Guinness as we know it, rich subtle and dark, is ready to see the light of day.
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Get to the back of the drawers and cupboards - areas which don't often see the light of day.
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I am not too worried about the new council tax because I doubt whether it will see the light of day.
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I never sold a garment or got an order from this source, I wonder if they saw the light of day.
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Many of Brindley's ideas were regarded as the hair-brained schemes of a madman which would never see the light of day.
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Sadly, for it was a lively, largely autobiographical piece, it would never see the light of day.
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The implication must be that a lot of bids are being planned but never see the light of day.
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There's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day.
ten days hence/five months hence etc
the break of day
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Old blackout curtains staunch the break of day.
the day of judgement
the day/week etc after next
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From them I learned that the coronation was to be on the day after next , and not in three weeks.
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I think it might be the week after next .
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The case will be heard in London's High Court the week after next .
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We shall meet the day after next .
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We won't be able to cut the grass the week after next , as I'd hoped.
the day/week/month etc before
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And he also had long discussions with the actors when they rehearsed the dialogue during the week before shooting began.
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Barbara Walters found time the week before her swirl of Inaugural engagements as the date of Sen.
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Even the day before the King died!
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If she laid at dawn, like most birds, she would have to have prepared the day before .
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That is equivalent to the day before Thanksgiving, Black Wednesday, in industry parlance.
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The final winner will be announced the week before Super Bowl.
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The move came the day before high school players are allowed to sign letters-of-intent with college programs.
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The observers of gonorrhoea in the days before effective treatment was available vividly described the symptoms of acute gonococcal urethritis.
the day/week/year etc before last
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I didn't know myself where the house was until the week before last .
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In the week before last , claims rose by 22, 000.
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The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters.
the evil hour/day etc
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Putting off the evil hour, she suspected.
the good old days
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Going to a movie only cost a five cents in the good old days.
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A full-tilt throwback to the good old days of Tres Hombres and Fandango.
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But those were the good old days.
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For the weapons scientists, the good old days are over.
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Gone from our ken the iron horse, Those were the good old days ... of course.
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In the good old days of rampant dualism, the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society.
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In the good old days you had lots of career men.
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Switch on your television set these days and you can bask in the warmth of the good old days.
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This isn t a wild club night in the good old days of Ibiza.
the good old days/the bad old days
the odd occasion/day/moment/drink etc
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However, on the odd occasion that I purchase fish elsewhere, I do quarantine the fish for two weeks.
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Not on the odd occasion, but each time they took this fit.
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On the odd occasion the jollities would get out of hand and the fists would fly.
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This doesn't matter on the odd occasion; it is only a problem if it occurs regularly.
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We've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year, but it's just the odd day basically.
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We just used to banter, have the odd drink together, fool around in the snow.
the old days
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And yet nothing is like it was in the old days.
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He was in Toksu Palace, where he had enjoyed the evening, reminiscing with attendants about the old days.
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In the old days he could've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope.
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It was like the old days, and it was very moving.
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They did what in the old days was ascribed to demons.
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They would have ordered things differently in the old days.
the other day/morning/week etc
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Another feller came the other day to get some, too.
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C., your man Stafford called the other day.
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He won on his seasonal debut at Chepstow last month and wasn't at all disgraced when third at Ascot the other day.
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I caught Cam looking at me the other day.
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I had a letter from Benedicta the other day.
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I just saw one the other day, buying cheese.
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Isn't the sea calmer than the other day?
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Yeah, she did that the other day in the car.
the present day
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Traditional Indian pottery designs are still used in the present day.
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Cheque Thanks to the generosity of the Order the centre is ready to meet those needs in the present day and age.
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It is certainly the case that sentencing practice to the present day has manifested an uneasy and uneven relationship between the two.
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Music since 1945 A survey of the principal technical and aesthetic trends in music to the present day, including electro-acoustic music.
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Oh, what a lesson to the world it is, even at the present day!
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The strict settlement method is rarely used at the present day.
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They are ill-adapted, obviously, to the present day: but they survive in isolated areas.
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This has continued in use to the present day and carries a vast traffic between Oxford and Coventry and Birmingham.
the previous day/chapter/owner etc
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Chapter 8 provides a summary of the findings from the previous chapters and draws conclusions.
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If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
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In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.
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Instead of travelling with the security truck carrying the money, Morgan had checked out the area round the bank the previous day.
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Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
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The Coroner's inquest had been held in Southwold the previous day and he had attended with Evelyn.
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The detailed history in the previous chapters has given an account of Ian Paisley's personal combination of religion and politics.
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The temperature then was 41 after the game was postponed the previous day because of freezing rain and snow.
to your dying day
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He chose Everton over Arsenal and will regret that decision to his dying day.
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He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
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Nixon believed to his dying day, and with good reason, that Kennedy had stolen the contest, especially in Illinois.
waking hours/life/day etc
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Every second of his waking hours, he was watched.
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He inhales desert lore and data all his waking hours.
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Indeed we sometimes spend a lot of our waking hours making sure that everything is as secure as we can make it.
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Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
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She still wanted to look as she did in waking life, but there were improvements she could make.
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Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.
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The documentation that he signed said, observe this resident one on one during waking hours.
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We were young and our waking hours were given to games.
we're/you're talking £500/three days etc
while away the hours/evening/days etc
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Let's while away the hours swapping stories.
win the day
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Defiance feels good, but it won't win the day.
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On this occasion the strikers won the day and were given a pay increase of 20%.
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And so all would have been lost and death would have won the day.
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But the idea won the day.
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By noon he had obtained Nate's approval and had won the day.
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Did defiance win the day for Jack?
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In effect, Joyce and National Socialism were to win the day.
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The eunuchs have won the day.
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The second touchdown, though, is what actually won the day.
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Their persuasiveness will win the day.
working day
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A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.
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Additional reports e.g. showing approved entries and responsible lexicographer, will be produced within one working day when required.
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As if to signal that the working day was about to begin, the telephone rang.
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In many areas the Hearing is held on the first working day after the removal of the child.
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Since the scheme was introduced, only motorists with special passes are allowed to use Ipswich Street during the working day.
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They proceed not to turn up on Monday, the next working day.
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This downward trend was so significant during this period that the average working day fell by around 1 hour.
working hours/day/week
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Apparently, too, Rosie enjoyed herself after working hours.
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At the end of the working day most of us retreat to families and/or partners and play other parts.
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Items must be posted at post office counters in advance of latest recommended posting times for next working day delivery.
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Remember, your spouse may not be used to having you home during working hours.
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The whole operation was based on 50 journeys or rounds, one for each vehicle on every working day of the week.
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These, as we now know, involve everything from environmental considerations to limits on the working hours of employees.
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They had only three working days in which to prepare the defence against the new charge.
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They took long lunches and went to barbershops, beauty parlors, bathhouses, and tearooms during working hours.
your good deed for the day
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What day is today?" "It's Friday."
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Did you have a good day at the office?
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I work an eight-hour day .
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It rained all day .
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It was cold and the days were getting shorter.
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Pressler spent four days in Cuba during a Caribbean tour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Next day the doctor prescribed small yellow pills for vertigo.
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One day Mulholland was approached by a man in a carriage who demanded to know his name and what he was doing.
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The white men forget us and death comes almost every day for some of my people.
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They want to arrange their own lunches, decide for themselves how to spend some days.
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Yeah, but you had, like, three shots at this the other day .