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HI.
Given the augmented data file data1, similar to many of the posted solutions:

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money king money queen money cat king king money also money king

the pipeline:

Code:

sed 's/money king /&\n/'g data1 |
grep -c 'money king'

produces:

Code:

For the environment:

Code:

OS ker|rel,  machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.8 (lenny) 
sed GNU sed version 4.1.5
grep GNU grep 2.5.3

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