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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC'>Yes, the final chapter of The Autumn of the Patriarch is one
sentence, about 50 pages long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Riaņo<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:13 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] max sentence legnths<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>A good English translation of
"The Autumn of the Patriarch" should beat that one by far.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>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>>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>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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