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Collocations for regular - adj.

1. frequent

VERBS

be, seem
become

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ADVERB

very
fairly, pretty (esp. AmE), quite, reasonably
a pretty regular customer
increasingly
She enjoyed his increasingly regular visits.

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PHRASES

at regular intervals
His blood pressures was taken at regular intervals.
on a regular basis
The paintings are changed on a regular basis.

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2. following a pattern

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

highly, very
highly regular patterns
perfectly
Her face was perfectly regular.
fairly

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3. (AmE) ordinary

VERBS

be, seem
Everything seemed regular.

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ADVERB

fairly, pretty
He's a pretty regular guy.
perfectly
She comes from a perfectly regular middle-class family.

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Regular is used with these nouns:
appearance, army, assessment, attendance, basis, beat, bedtime, breathing, briefing, bus, check, check-up, chore, client, clientele, clothes, column, communication, contact, contributor, correspondence, customer, cycle, drinker, duty, employment, event, exercise, exposure, fare, fashion, feature, feedback, fix, fixture, flight, folk, follow-up, force, gasoline, grid, guest, guy, habit, haunt, hour, income, injection, inspection, intake, job, mail, maintenance, medical, medication, meeting, member, menu, military, milk, monitoring, occurrence, participant, pattern, payment, physiotherapy, premium, programme, rate, reader, repayment, report, review, rhythm, routine, saver, schedule, season, service, session, shape, shopper, sight, smoker, soda, soldier, subscriber, sum, summit, supervision, supply, surveillance, survey, swim, trip, troops, update, use, user, verb, viewer, visit, visitor, wage, winner, work, workout, worship

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