Collins Cobuild

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firs edition 2003; reissued 2011
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EPUB Edition © August 2011 ISBN 978-0-00-744482-3
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Editors
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Christina Rammell Keith Stuart Alison Macaulay
Publishing Director
Lorna Sinclair Knight
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Corpus Acknowledgements
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who have kindly given permission for copyright material to be used in the Bank of English. The
written sources include many national and regional newspapers in Britain and overseas;
magazine and periodical publishers; and book publishers in Britain, the United States, and
Australia. Extensive spoken data has been provided by radio and television broadcasting
companies; research workers at many universities and other institutions; and numerous
individual contributors.
We are grateful to them all.
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