Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	great_a	king_n	part_n	9,521	5	4.1906	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66939	The times mended, or, A rectified account of time, by a new luni-solar year, the true way to number our days by R.W. ...	Wood, Robert, 1622?-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing W3405; ESTC R20841	29,569	34

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