| much | 12 | degree |
| after 30 years | 6 | temporal |
| at the outset | 5 | temporal |
| problem → be → smaller | 56 |
| problem → become → smaller | 29 |
| problem → get → smaller | 22 |
| problem → look → smaller | 4 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.318 | 0.454 | 0.227 |
| Raw frequency | 111 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.426 |
| Modifier score | 0.700 |
| Perplexity | 132.259 |