| No | Pattern | Freq | Relations |
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| 1 | [art] number of [noun] be | 586 |
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| 2 | [art] number of [noun] be | 586 |
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| 3 | a number of [noun] be | 362 |
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| 4 | a number of [noun] be | 362 |
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| 5 | [adj] number of [noun] be | 311 |
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| 6 | [adj] number of [noun] be | 275 |
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| 7 | the number of [noun] be | 224 |
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| 8 | the number of [noun] be | 224 |
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| 9 | large number of [noun] be | 61 |
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| 10 | large number of [noun] be | 53 |
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| 11 | small number of [noun] be | 32 |
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| 12 | increasing number of [noun] be | 30 |
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| 13 | increasing number of [noun] be | 30 |
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| 14 | small number of [noun] be | 29 |
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| 15 | total number of [noun] be | 22 |
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| 16 | total number of [noun] be | 22 |
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| 17 | growing number of [noun] be | 15 |
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| 18 | growing number of [noun] be | 15 |
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| 19 | great number of [noun] be | 15 |
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| 20 | limited number of [noun] be | 13 |
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| 21 | limited number of [noun] be | 13 |
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| 22 | [adj -est] number of [noun] be | 13 |
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| 23 | [adj -er] number of [noun] be | 12 |
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| 24 | [det] number of [noun] be | 11 |
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| 25 | substantial number of [noun] be | 7 |
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| 26 | average number of [noun] be | 7 |
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| 27 | significant number of [noun] be | 7 |
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| 28 | greatest number of [noun] be | 7 |
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| 29 | significant number of [noun] be | 7 |
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| 30 | substantial number of [noun] be | 7 |
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