Statistics
Overview
- Number of texts: 9,813
- Number of sentences: 1,472,667
- Number of tokens: 35,311,790
- Years covered: 1665–1869
Text Types
Each text belongs to one of four text classes.
| Type | Texts | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Article | 7,283 | 32,159,333 |
| Abstract | 2,243 | 2,003,099 |
| Book review | 273 | 837,437 |
| Obituary | 14 | 311,921 |
| total | 9,813 | 35,311,790 |
Time Periods
The corpus covers two centuries of Early and Late Modern English.
50-Year Periods
| Period | Texts | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| 1650 | 1,326 | 2,599,789 |
| 1700 | 1,702 | 3,449,681 |
| 1750 | 1,831 | 6,792,363 |
| 1800 | 2,778 | 10,748,582 |
| 1850 | 2,176 | 11,721,375 |
| total | 9,813 | 35,311,790 |
Decades
| Decade | Texts | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| 1660 | 308 | 457,067 |
| 1670 | 377 | 834,906 |
| 1680 | 268 | 577,952 |
| 1690 | 373 | 729,864 |
| 1700 | 355 | 786,791 |
| 1710 | 190 | 494,651 |
| 1720 | 297 | 544,120 |
| 1730 | 365 | 614,836 |
| 1740 | 495 | 1,009,283 |
| 1750 | 485 | 1,210,020 |
| 1760 | 410 | 998,420 |
| 1770 | 412 | 1,585,242 |
| 1780 | 305 | 1,495,255 |
| 1790 | 219 | 1,503,426 |
| 1800 | 519 | 1,700,355 |
| 1810 | 667 | 1,496,051 |
| 1820 | 287 | 2,028,691 |
| 1830 | 829 | 3,023,292 |
| 1840 | 476 | 2,500,193 |
| 1850 | 991 | 5,131,967 |
| 1860 | 1,185 | 6,589,408 |
| total | 9,813 | 35,311,790 |
