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Collocations for normal - noun

VERB + normal

be back to, go back to, return to
After a week of festivities, life returned to normal.

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PREPOSITION

above normal
The rainfall has been above normal for this time of year.
below normal
Sales to December are well below normal.
near normal
His pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal.

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Collocations for normal - adj.

VERBS

be
become
feel
appear, look, seem
consider sth, regard sth as, view sth as
It is now regarded as normal for women to work outside the home.

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ADVERB

very
completely, entirely (esp. BrE), perfectly, quite, totally
It started out as a perfectly normal day.
fairly, pretty
I'd say it was pretty normal to be upset if your house burned down.
relatively
apparently, seemingly

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PREPOSITION

for
The temperature is normal for spring.

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PHRASES

as normal
First work out the answers as normal.
in the normal way
Go for your check-ups in the normal way until you are six months pregnant.
in normal circumstances, under normal circumstances
Under normal circumstances Martin would probably have gone to college.
sb's normal self
Mandy doesn't seem her normal self today.

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Normal is used with these nouns:
baby, bedtime, behaviour, birth, bloke, blood pressure, cell, channel, childhood, circumstance, clothes, complement, condition, context, convention, conversation, course, curve, day, development, distribution, expectation, fare, fashion, fee, folk, growth, guy, habit, hearing, individual, infant, intake, intelligence, kid, kind, level, life, limit, liver, manner, mode, occurrence, operation, pattern, people, person, practice, precaution, pregnancy, procedure, process, rainfall, range, reaction, reading, residence, response, rhythm, routine, schedule, self, shape, size, speech, speed, subject, teenager, temperature, tissue, tone, usage, use, vision, way

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