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between and from the corpus with smoothing of .
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1800 - 1818 1819 - 1979 1980 - 1988 1989 - 1995 1996 - 2000 preventative English
1800 - 1838 1839 - 1968 1969 - 1979 1980 - 1989 1990 - 2000 preventive English
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