The phrase "administer a dose of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in medical or pharmaceutical contexts to refer to giving a specific amount of medication to a patient.
Example: "The nurse will administer a dose of the vaccine to each patient in the clinic today."
Alternatives: "give a dose of" or "provide a dose of".
Or as Sandra Pianalto, president of the Cleveland Fed, put it: "History has an ability to administer a dose of humility".
I guess he was hoping we wouldn't notice his singing.' Nunn is hoping to administer a dose of authenticity to a show that has become too balmily, tropically mellow.
On a winter day in 2013 at the Admiraal De Ruyter Hospital in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, a veteran nurse named Bastian Teichert was about to administer a dose of medicine to a patient with epilepsy.
Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant".
This tiny RC copter is available from Thinkgeek for $50 and would work perfectly to administer a dose of lethal poison to a sleeping kwisatz haderach.
Let me first administer a dose of strong medicine to those of you who are in a parenting relationship with your children's father.
They are pursuing a homicide case against his personal physician, who reportedly administered a dose of a powerful anesthetic, propofol, before he died.
And a conscience isn't much good if all it does is make you sputter for a few moments on your way to administering a dose of poison.
Now along comes the Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, a tough new cop on the beat, who administers a dose of you-must-be-kidding-me.
Once the tumors grew to a specific size, the researchers administered a dose of the drug-laden nanotubes every six days.
