THE INTEGRATION OF BANKING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE NEED FOR REGULATORY REFORM

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forms is in any sense rare. See Table 2 below for rounded
occurrence figures:

Word Google Occurrences

Under 5 billion

Attack 823 million

Disgruntled 13 million

Employees 727 million

Competitors 185 million

Rumours 50 million

Peddled 1.5 million

Recognised 85 million

Revenue 454 million

Fully 1.2 billion

Expensed 1.8 million

Table 2: Google Word Frequency Searches on Feb. 29, 2012

However, as noted above, what distinguishes speakers/writers
and the texts they produce is their coselections. Thus, when we
look at some of the coselections in the production of word
sequences, we note how quickly the frequency of occurrence
decreases as a given phrase lengthens. Here are two examples
chosen from the end of the first paragraph of the questioned
email: