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List of collocations in English
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A great place to start is http://www.collocates.info which is based on COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English). It is incredibly comprehensive (not free but the prices range from $45-$250).
This site also answers the question as to how many collocates there are in English? 4.3 million. That is from the perspective of all possible collocate relationships (even incredibly weak ones). You can only ask that question meaningfully if you have a purpose in mind. For instance, collocates to help students learn. Collocates that should trigger text autocomplete. Etc.
If you're looking for collocations for students, then you can start with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary which lists 250k collocations.
Or you can use the free online collocations dictionary. But you can only search that, not browse the whole list.
For NLP purposes, your best source is COCA or the already mentioned Google Ngrams (which has many limitations, also mentioned).
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