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    This document contains frequency data for the word "hopefully" from two corpora - COCA and COHA - broken down by decade. In COCA, the frequency of "hopefully" increased from the 1990s to the 2000s across all text types. In COHA, the frequency was very low or zero until the 1950s and has been increasing each decade since, with the highest frequency in the 2000s.

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    This document contains frequency data for the word "hopefully" from two corpora - COCA and COHA - broken down by decade. In COCA, the frequency of "hopefully" increased from the 1990s to the 2000s across all text types. In COHA, the frequency was very low or zero until the 1950s and has been increasing each decade since, with the highest frequency in the 2000s.

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    This document contains frequency data for the word "hopefully" from two corpora - COCA and COHA - broken down by decade. In COCA, the frequency of "hopefully" increased from the 1990s to the 2000s across all text types. In COHA, the frequency was very low or zero until the 1950s and has been increasing each decade since, with the highest frequency in the 2000s.

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    Hopefully

    COCA

    [HELP...]

    COMPARE
    SECTION

    SPOKEN

    FICTION

    MAGAZINE

    NEWSPAPER

    ACADEMIC

    1990-1994

    1995-1999

    2000-2004

    2005-2009

    FREQ

    493

    172

    212

    378

    143

    244

    265

    305

    373

    211

    PER MIL

    5.16

    1.90

    2.22

    4.12

    1.57

    2.35

    2.56

    2.96

    3.66

    4.06

    COHA

    2010-2012

    [HELP...]

    COMPARE
    SECTION 1810

    1820

    1830

    1840

    1850

    1860

    1870

    1880

    1890

    1900

    1910

    1920

    1930

    1940

    1950

    1960

    1970

    1980

    1990

    2000

    FREQ

    20

    15

    23

    26

    70

    PER MIL

    0.00

    0.00

    0.00

    0.00

    0.06

    0.06

    0.00

    0.05

    0.00

    0.05

    0.00

    0.12

    0.24

    0.08

    0.29

    0.83

    0.63

    0.91

    0.93

    2.37

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