from day to day vs nightly

from day to day

adv
  • focusing on one day at a time. 

  • daily. 

nightly

adj
  • Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal. 

  • Performing, occurring, or taking place every night. 

  • Used in the night. 

adv
  • Every night. 

noun
  • A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night. 

How often have the words from day to day and nightly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )