ADJ
- the following, (the) next
- the previous
- the other
- I was in your area the other day (= recently)
- one, some
- I hope we meet again some day
- the very
- It happened on the very day (= the same day) that Kemp was murdered. The parcel arrived the very next day
- auspicious, big, eventful, field, historic, memorable, red-letter, special
- The tabloid press had a field day with the latest government scandal
- fateful, sad
- those killed in the hail of bullets fired on that fateful day
- Christmas, Mother's, etc.
- feast, holy
- election, opening, market, pay, polling, sports, visiting, wedding
- rest, school, study, training
- the pattern of the school day
DAY + VERB
- pass
- He thought of her less as the days passed
PREP
- by the ~
- He's getting stronger by the day
- for a/the ~
- They stayed for ten days
- in a/the ~
- We hope to finish the job in a few days
- on the ~ (of)
- On the day of his wedding he was very nervous
- ~ of
- It was the day of the big match
ADJ
- beautiful, bright, fine, glorious, hot, nice, sunny, warm
- cold, grey, rainy, windy
- autumn, spring, summer/summer's, winter/winter's
- a fine summer's day
- fun, good, great, happy, lovely, wonderful
- Memories of happy days on the hills never fade
- bad
- On a bad day chaos reigns and nobody can predict when a plane will leave
- full
- I knew I had a full day's driving ahead of me
VERB + DAY
- spend
- We spent the day gardening
DAY + VERB
- break, dawn
- As day dawned I found her already hard at work
PREP
- by ~
- We travelled at night and rested by day
- during the ~, for a/the ~
- We went to the seaside for the day
PHRASES
- all day (long), at the end of the day, day and night, one of those days
- It's been one of those days when everything's gone wrong
ADJ
- working
- bad, busy, hard, long, tiring
- a hard day at the office
- good, quiet
- 7-hour, 8-hour, etc.
- a 9-hour working day
ADJ
- early, former, old, olden
- in the early days of the cinema
- school, student, young
- in his younger days
- golden, happy, heady
- the heady days of the 'swinging sixties'
- dark
- the dark days of recession
PREP
- in sb's ~
- Things were very different in my grandfather's day
- of the ~
- the government of the day
- since the ~s of
- Much has changed since the days of my youth
PHRASES
- gone are the days when …
- Gone are the days when you could do a week's shopping and still have change from £20
- the bad/good old days
- That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation
- in this day and age, in those days, the present day (= the situation that exists in the world now)
- a study of European drama, from Ibsen to the present day
- these days
- Kids grow up so quickly these days
- those were the days (= used to suggest that a time in the past was better than now)