Table 30.1 Expressions from frequency lists in the Cambridge International Corpus, North American
Conversation

No. of words in phrase Examples
two you know, I mean, I guess, or something
three a little bit, and all that
four or something like that, and things like that, I don’t know if
five you know what I mean, as a matter of fact
six it was nice talking to you; and all that kind of stuff
seven+ words a lot of it has to do (with) …