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between and from the corpus with smoothing of .
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1750 - 1779 1780 - 1822 1823 - 1842 1843 - 1991 1992 - 2008 gay English
1750 - 1949 1950 - 1992 1993 - 1996 1997 - 2000 2001 - 2008 homosexual English
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