the former, the latter
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
FormalRegister
A pair of expressions used to refer back economically to the first and second of two previously mentioned items respectively.
Both qualitative and quantitative methods were considered; the former was ultimately chosen for its depth.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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