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Old 06-Sep-2005, 11:12
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Default Re: 100 million word British National Corpus.

I don't think it is that common- any attempt to establish such a list will be based on a sample, because it is impossible to analyse everything. Therefore, there will often be slight differences, especially as you move away from the top five or ten. These lists generally show quite a bit of agreement, as long as they use a sufficiently large sample size, but there is no absolute official list.
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