"eve" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is most commonly used as a noun referring to either the evening before a special day (as in "Christmas Eve") or the period immediately preceding an event (as in "the eve of the revolution"). It can also be used as a verb meaning to anticipate or herald an event or occurrence. For example: "The village was quiet on the eve of the impending storm."
New Year's Eve raises even more questions: do I go out or feel left out?
But for doctors, the more serious issues around drinking are not focused on New Year's Eve – or even the disorder often seen in city centres on Saturday nights.
On the eve of the commencement, anger was still simmering as president James F Jones Jr announced he would not participate Saturday because of the fears of unspecified disruptions.
A 10-day strike starting at the National Gallery on Tuesday has taken on an added dimension now one of the Public and Commercial Services union's senior representatives, Candy Udwin – suspended on the eve of the first strike in February (Letters, 12 March) – has been sacked.
Archibald arrived at his new domain last month to discover that, on the eve of the first match of the season, the previous chairman had turned up in the dead of night with a removal van and taken away what few assets remained at the club.
For many years he invited a group of political reporters to dinner on the eve of the Tory conference, at Salisbury in the south or the Riverside hotel at Poulton-le-Fylde when the conference was in Blackpool.
But of the 500 or so people who turned up for a sunny but cold Sunday at The Parks to watch Oxford MCCU host Surrey in a three-day friendly match, few would have bet against Pietersen plundering a century in his first game of red-ball cricket for 15 months, and on the eve of England's first Test with West Indies in Antigua.
"I've coached Australia in rugby, if one of my players was seen on the eve of the rugby test was seen... having dinner, privately inviting to dinner one of the All Blacks, the player would be sent home Malcolm," said Jones.
The first victim of the rogue batch of drugs is thought to be a Lithuanian factory worker, Eustace Ropas, 22, who died on Christmas Eve at his home, also in Ipswich.
The tense atmosphere was broken by passersby who gave protesters fruit and cakes, and a friendly police officer who corrected a spelling mistake in chalking on the pavement: "Trying to help homeless evicted on Christmas Eve".
He said they still planned to serve a free Christmas Day meal to the homeless and he was baffled as to why bailiffs would be called on Christmas Eve.
