Google Books Ngram Viewer

Graph these comma-separated phrases:
case-insensitive
between and from the corpus with smoothing of .  
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1900 - 1908 1909 - 1914 1915 - 1938 1939 - 1979 1980 - 2000 the cat and dog English
1900 - 1908 1909 - 1923 1924 - 1929 1930 - 1981 1982 - 2000 the cat and the dog English
1900 - 1906 1907 - 1930 1931 - 1935 1936 - 1979 1980 - 2000 a cat and dog English
1900 - 1908 1909 - 1920 1921 - 1928 1929 - 1988 1989 - 2000 a cat and a dog English

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