Statistics
Overview
- Number of texts: 9,779
- Number of sentences: 1,119,141
- Number of tokens: 31,952,725
- Years covered: 1665–1869
Text Types
Each text belongs to one of four text classes.
| Type | Texts | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Article | 7,249 | 28,815,193 |
| Abstract | 2,243 | 1,993,180 |
| Book review | 273 | 832,721 |
| Obituary | 14 | 311,631 |
| total | 9,779 | 31,952,725 |
Time Periods
The corpus covers two centuries of Early and Late Modern English.
50-Year Periods
| Period | Texts | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| 1650 | 1,325 | 2,582,856 |
| 1700 | 1,686 | 3,414,793 |
| 1750 | 1,819 | 6,342,780 |
| 1800 | 2,774 | 9,112,563 |
| 1850 | 2,175 | 10,499,733 |
| total | 9,779 | 31,952,725 |
Decades
| Decade | Texts | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| 1660 | 308 | 455,259 |
| 1670 | 376 | 831,190 |
| 1680 | 268 | 573,018 |
| 1690 | 373 | 723,389 |
| 1700 | 355 | 780,721 |
| 1710 | 190 | 489,857 |
| 1720 | 295 | 538,145 |
| 1730 | 352 | 599,977 |
| 1740 | 494 | 1,006,093 |
| 1750 | 484 | 1,179,112 |
| 1760 | 408 | 972,672 |
| 1770 | 408 | 1,501,388 |
| 1780 | 300 | 1,354,124 |
| 1790 | 219 | 1,335,484 |
| 1800 | 518 | 1,615,564 |
| 1810 | 666 | 1,446,900 |
| 1820 | 286 | 1,408,473 |
| 1830 | 828 | 2,613,486 |
| 1840 | 476 | 2,028,140 |
| 1850 | 990 | 4,610,380 |
| 1860 | 1,185 | 5,889,353 |
| total | 9,779 | 31,952,725 |
