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Conclusions
Based on a study of 30 fields from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, we find that about 1.5% of 2dFGRS galaxies brighter than 
magnitude are candidate identifications for 1.4GHz NVSS radio sources. Of these about 80-85% will turn out, after closer examination, to be `real' associations. Thus if the whole 2dFGRS contains 250,000 galaxies, we expect to identify about 4,000 candidate matches with NVSS by the time the 2dFGRS is complete. About 60% of these galaxies will be AGN (radio galaxies and some Seyferts) and 40% star-forming galaxies. For galaxies south of declination 
, we will also have 843MHz radio flux density measurements from the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS; Bock et al. 1999), and will be able to measure radio spectral indices.
The final sample will be by far the largest (and most homogeneous) sample of radio-galaxy spectra ever obtained, and will allow us to study both the AGN and starburst radio populations out to redshift 
, and to look for evidence of evolution over this redshift range. As the present paper goes to press, the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey is 20% complete and our sample has already grown to more than 700 galaxies. This larger sample will be analysed in more detail in a forthcoming paper.
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