Preposition: on

• Mb: The wind was light SW'ly and pressure steady on 1015 mb.

Object

• ship: Mike Mcgowan as ever steadied the ship with 22 and was unlucky to be out.

Preposition: as

• rock: May our faith be as steady as a rock.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: A tame reading on consumer prices tomorrow may reinforce speculation the central bank will keep borrowing costs steady through the start of next year.

Modifies a noun

• stream: The growth of the economy depends on a steady stream of people with bright ideas.

• trickle: The steady trickle of deaths in football has led to mandatory screening for all junior recruits at Premier League clubs.

• decline: Our once proud fishing fleet has been in steady decline over the years.

• pace: I ran at a steady pace the whole way without walking at all.

• flow: Golf courses tend to generate a steady flow of road traffic through the day.

• progress: Alan was able to report on steady progress in dealing with the backlog of highways work.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: He was working up to Saturday noon, and was a fairly steady man.

• relatively: I would be surprised if they radically altered the broad prospect of relatively steady progress over the next two years.

• reasonably: For men, both graduates and the comparator group benefit from a reasonably steady pattern of earnings growth over their working lives.

• pretty: Some prices will rise and some will fall, but overall - on average - prices will be pretty steady.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Selling prices of timber fire doors remained broadly steady with 57 % seeing no change.

• hold: Ensure camera is held very steady on a sturdy tripod or similar.

• stay: Until the decision, the dollar will stay fairly steady.