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	part_n	year_n	5,288	5	4.4857	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08576	Further newes from Ostend Wherein is declared such accidnets as haue happened since the former edition, dilligently collected out of sundry letters and aduertisments, as haue beene from Zeland, Callice, and other places latley receiued. 1601.		1601 (1601)	STC 18894; ESTC S121010	9,370	17

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