A rolling programme of electrification is needed to prevent the loss of skills that will be needed in the future. … Asked how quickly a decision from Government is needed to get the rolling programme going, Clarke replied: Yesterday would be good.

[p 56] The term collocation refers to the characteristic co-occurrence patterns of words, i.e., which words typically co-occur in corpus data (see Units A10.2 and C1). Collocates can be lexical words or grammatical words. Collocations are identified using a statistical approach. Three statistical formulae are most commonly used in corpus linguistics to identify significant collocations: the M1 (mutual information), t and z scores. [p 159] In lexical studies collocation and semantic prosody/preference can only be quantified reliably on the basis of corpus data.

O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.

Only we don't happen to be in the middle of nowhere! We're just about a couple of miles from a market town where abides a nice little inn whence petrol can be obtained.