>>> text = ['1', '12', '123', '11', '1', '12', '12']
>>> from collections import Counter
>>> text_counts = Counter(text)
>>> text_counts
Counter({'12': 3, '1': 2, '11': 1, '123': 1})
>>> top_two = text_counts.most_common(2)
>>> top_two
[('12', 3), ('1', 2)]
