select vs top-flight

select

adj
  • Of high quality; top-notch. 

  • Privileged, specially selected. 

verb
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. 

  • To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. 

top-flight

adj
  • Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence 

  • In the highest division 

How often have the words select and top-flight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )