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Finally, Section 5 offers some concluding remarks and food for thought. Variable slots after from close range and the minute, interestingly, reveal a different specificity of FM reports as they are related to the use of function words. Interestingly, only two lexical bundles in the sample retrieved from CorpusBBC include this preposition, namely, with minutes left and with a. In contrast, out of the top twenty words in CorpusFM, eight items are lexical words in the sequence of decreasing frequency: minutes, range, close, finish, minute, strike, lead, then. Admittedly, these samples do not represent lexical bundles of similar currency in both corpora, but they still allow us to capture the most typical recurrent lexical patterns in our data.

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