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Corpus Total Number of Average Number per Occurrences Million Words guardian 14 1.1/million times 10 1.0/million econ 7 0.8/million today 10 0.6/million newsci 2 0.5/million indy 2 0.4/million scbooks 1 0.3/million spoken 3 0.2/million npr 3 0.1/million britbooks 3 0.1/million mags 3 0.1/million oznews 1 0.1/million bbc 1 0.1/million american 1 0.1/million ephem 0 0.0/million wsj 0 0.0/million An interesting feature is brought to light when we look for 'different+than': we may have intuited that it is more favoured by American English than British English, but the data shows that it is also very frequent in British speech, though comparatively rare in British writing: Corpus Total Number of Average Number per Occurrences Million Words npr 218 9.8/million american 53 2.7/million spoken 40 2.6/million wsj 13 2.1/million scbooks 8 2.0/million oznews 9 0.9/million britbooks 18 0.8/million mags 17 0.6/million bbc 6 0.3/million today 5 0.3/million 67