Here are examples of using time adverbs:
I was instantly attracted to her.
You have been replaced permanently.
My organization just recently traced a large purchase by this man.
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 54 in the category of adverbs is defined as
those that modify to refer to the timing of an event.
(This is one of those points that is well found in the EVP too.)
The only list that we can find is within the example sentences of the EGP entry:
instantly|permanently|recently|shortly|simultaneously
Then these were found in the iWeb corpus for their ranking as RR = general adverb.
204 Instantly
(collocates 4 to the left and right on iWeb corpus):
1 ALMOST (RR ) 13312
2 RECOGNIZABLE (JJ ) 5058
3 RECOGNISABLE (JJ ) 4254
4 BECAME (VVD ) 3125
5 FELL (VVD ) 3031
286 permanently
1 TEMPORARILY (RR ) 4647
2 ATTACHED (VVN ) 2812
3 DELETE (VVI ) 2130
4 INSTALLED (VVN_VVD ) 1924
5 REMOVE (VVI ) 1779
52 recently
1 UNTIL (II ) 54173
2 POSTED (VVN_VVD ) 23258
3 .. (… ) 20870
4 RELEASED (VVN ) 20504
5 ANNOUNCED (VVN_VVD ) 18521
195 shortly
1 AFTER (II_CS ) 95161
2 AFTER (CS ) 31625
3 AFTER (II ) 29684
4 BEFORE (II_CS ) 29032
5 THEREAFTER (RT ) 21643
235 Simultaneously
1 WHILE (CS ) 27195
2 MULTIPLE (C1 EVP)
3 DEVICES (NN2 ) 2433
4 WHILST (CS ) 1611
5 TASKS (NN2 ) 1274
In the above vocabulary, using the text inspector and iWeb ranking for general adverb (RR):
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