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Appendix Bank of English: Summary of Composition April 1995 Source size (millions of words) number of texts percentage of total BBC World Service 18.7 (500) 8.88% Independent 5.0 49 2.38% Times 10.3 79 4.89% National Public Radio (Washington)* 22.0 729 10.45% Economist 8.7 28 4.16% ephemera 1.8 837 0.86% New Scientist 4.1 92 1.95% Australian news 10.2 141 4.85% Spoken (general) 15.5 1571 7.36% Today 18.1 540 8.60% American books and newspapers* 19.4 273 9.22% British books 27.9 406 13.25% Guardian 12.6 137 5.99% Magazines (general, popular) 30.0 760 14.25% Wall Street Journal* 6.2 15 2.95% TOTAL 210.5 6156 * = US English Additional corpora: Business English (journals, textbooks) 3.0 Academic writing 1.5 GCSE textbooks 1.0