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Let us consider the dust-jacket blurbs of Cobuild, CED , and two other native-speaker dictionaries: the British Longman Dictionary of the English Language (Longman , 1984) and the American Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary ( W9 , 1983).
Cobuild: over 70,000 references CED: 170,000 references Longman: Over 225,000 definitions and more than 90,000 headwords W9: Almost 160,000 entries and 200,000 definitions
Useful though that is, the best-known genuine collocations dictionary for English--probably, however, only until the publication of the seriously delayed Words in Use compilation from the Cobuild stable--is undoubtedly the BBI Combinatory Dictionary , by M. Benson, E. Benson, and R. Ilson (Benjamin, 1986).
It is only from an article about CED that we learn it has “171,000 entries,” which suggests that Collins means by references what Merriam-Webster means by entries . But CED and Cobuild certainly do not say so!
The Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary of 1987 ( Cobuild ) boasts xxiv plus 1703 pages.