Kilgarriff has made these lists available at their ftp site:
ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/pub/bnc/README.
in the BNC, given in three columns:
(frequency in BNC) (word) (number of documents)
There are 89740556 word tokens in the BNC (upper and lowercase merged)
and a total of 3209 documents. So a word like
33060 school 2167
appears 33060 times (either as school, School, or SCHOOL)
in the BNC, appears in 2167 (varying size) documents.
89740556 !!ANY 3209
5776487 the 3209
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