I had come across one sentence in the English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was at least one and a half pages long.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <<a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
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Does anyone have the information about the maximum English sentence lengths in the main genres, such as news reports, academic writings, speeches etc, ideally with publication references?<br>
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With best regards<br>
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Scott Piao<br>
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School of Computer Science<br>
The University of Manchester<br>
Manchester, UK<br>
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Email: <a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a><br>
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