Collocations for the word power when used in the Senate during the 1970s
| Collocation | Frequency |
|---|---|
| nuclear power | 667 |
| purchasing power | 314 |
| constitutional power | 303 |
| power station | 294 |
| power stations | 130 |
| legislative power | 127 |
| power generation | 118 |
| commonwealth power | 84 |
| discretionary power | 84 |
| great power | 81 |
| monopoly power | 77 |
| executive power | 74 |
| foreign power | 64 |
| electric power | 63 |
| affairs power | 61 |
| given power | 59 |
| power would | 59 |
| spending power | 57 |
| judicial power | 54 |
| general power | 51 |
| power given | 51 |
| making power | 49 |
| industrial power | 48 |
| economic power | 47 |
| full power | 47 |
| political power | 46 |
| power house | 45 |
| power industry | 45 |
| solar power | 45 |
| corporations power | 44 |
| power plant | 44 |
| power plants | 43 |
| power within | 43 |
| hydro-electric power | 42 |
| voting power | 42 |
| much power | 40 |
| greater power | 39 |
| military power | 39 |
| gives power | 38 |
| wide power | 38 |
| excessive power | 36 |
| new power | 36 |
| arbitrary power | 35 |
| power supply | 35 |
| super power | 35 |
| real power | 34 |
| government power | 33 |
| power could | 33 |
| power units | 33 |
| power conferred | 32 |
| black power | 31 |
| equal power | 31 |
| legal power | 31 |
| major power | 31 |
| five power | 30 |
| power one | 30 |
| power without | 30 |
| reserve power | 30 |
| complete power | 29 |
| union power | 29 |
| necessary power | 28 |
| give power | 27 |
| power may | 27 |
| corporation power | 26 |
| minister power | 26 |
| ministerial power | 26 |
| power alcohol | 26 |
| bargaining power | 25 |
| absolute power | 24 |
| administering power | 24 |
| power senator | 24 |
| power vested | 24 |
| specific power | 24 |
| power development | 23 |
| regulation-making power | 23 |
| total power | 23 |
| federal power | 22 |
| power act | 22 |
| power exists | 22 |
| power reactors | 22 |
| power even | 21 |
| colonial power | 20 |
| money power | 20 |
| power needs | 20 |
| power politics | 20 |
| power strike | 20 |
| centralised power | 19 |
| naval power | 19 |
| power although | 19 |
| ultimate power | 19 |
| exclusive power | 18 |
| giving power | 18 |
| power let | 18 |
| sufficient power | 18 |
| world power | 18 |
| administrative power | 17 |
| atomic power | 17 |
| commerce power | 17 |
| financial power | 17 |
| gladstone power | 17 |