def get_top_n(dict, n):
    """Returns a list of the `n` tuples with the largest values in the dictionary, 
    sorted in descending order.

    Arguments:\n
    dict -- a dictionary of string (key), count (value) pairs\n
    n -- the number of largest counts (values)\n
    """
    return sorted(dict.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse = True)[:n]