British National Corpus

Today, the 100-million-word British National Corpus is considered small -- and dated -- because it preceded the Internet era, and other sources of new language.

Making Every Word Count 2008

The British National Corpus is a very large (over 100 million words) corpus of modern English, both spoken and written, and you can search it for free (you get 50 random hits, with context and sources).

languagehat.com: SEARCHING THE BNC. 2004

But within five years the technical term had developed a more general sense, and both are now used, with pressured slightly more common 2:3 than pressurised in the British National Corpus.

On being orient(at)ed DC 2010

Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

"Our Last, Best Hope" 2008

In assembling the British National Corpus, it cost the same to collect 10 million spoken words as to collect 50 million in written text, says Lou Burnard.

Making Every Word Count 2008

Mining data from the British National Corpus 4, Wordcount includes all the words that occur at least twice there, some 86,000 of them.

Slaw » Wordcount » Print 2007

Mining data from the British National Corpus, Wordcount includes all the words that occur at least twice there, some 86,000 of them.

Wordcount — Slaw 2007

Mining data from the British National Corpus, Wordcount includes all the words that occur at least twice there, some 86,000 of them.

Wordcount — Slaw 2007

I've just looked in the British National Corpus and find that I is the 11th most frequent word, whereas you is the 14th.

Archive 2007-04-01 DC 2007

I've just looked in the British National Corpus and find that I is the 11th most frequent word, whereas you is the 14th.

On me, me, me DC 2007