Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	appear_v	day_n	time_n	1,437	5	3.4595	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68409	A profitable and necessarie discourse, for the meeting with the bad garbelling of spices, vsed in these dayes And against the combination of the vvorkemen of that office, contrarie vnto common good. Composed by diuers grocers of London, wherein are handled such principall matters, as followeth in the table, before the booke.	Grocers' Company (London, England)	1592 (1592)	STC 16767; ESTC S108793	41,845	96

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