Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	great_a	king_n	year_n	6,631	5	4.9369	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01776	A brief account of the great oppressions and injuries which the managers of the East-India Company have acted on the lives, liberties, and estates of their fellow-subjects as also of their unjust dealings ... whereby they have exposed the honor and interest of the nation, and hazarded the intire loss of that advantageous trade : humbly offer'd as reasons for establishing a new joint-stock.		1695 (1695)	Wing B4506A; ESTC R223242	4,031	4

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