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econ times today wsj oznews ephem 815 934 1622 559 866 148 93.2/million 90.2/million 89.6/million 89.0/million 84.2/million 78.6/million This clearly suggests that 'actually' is used more in speech than in writing. Another example is 'robust': Corpus Total Number of Average Number per Occurrences Million Words wsj 128 20.4/million times 156 15.1/million econ 119 13.6/million indy 62 12.3/million guardian 155 12.3/million newsci 50 12.0/million mags 344 11,4/million american 136 7.0/million oznews 65 6.3/million britbooks 147 6.1/million ephem 10 5.3/million bbc 95 5.1/million today 84 4.8/million scbooks 14 3.5/million npr 70 3.1/million spoken 30 1,9/million This suggests that 'robust' is more often used in writing than in speech, and more often in economic texts and broadsheet newspapers than in tabloid newspapers and ephemera. Multi-word items can be similarly investigated. A search for 'new+broom' yields the following information: it is more often used in British English than American English, and more in writing than in speech: 66