[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[Yorick Wilks]

While youre all scouring Marquez, the following, from the preface to  
the King James Bible (1611?) is 253 words!
Yorick Wilks

Yet for all that, the learned know that certain worthy men have been  
brought to untimely death for none other fault, but for seeking to  
reduce their countrymen to good order and discipline; and that in some  
Commonwealths it was made a capital crime, once to motion the making  
of a new Law for the abrogating of an old, though the same were most  
pernicious; And that certain, which would be counted pillars of the  
State, and patterns of Virtue and Prudence, could not be brought for a  
long time to give way to good Letters and refined speech, but bare  
themselves as averse from them, as from rocks or boxes of poison; And  
fourthly, that he was no babe, but a great clerk, that gave forth (and  
in writing to remain to posterity) in passion peradventure, but yet he  
gave forth, that he had not seen any profit to come by any Synod, or  
meeting of the Clergy, but rather the contrary; And lastly, against  
Church-maintenance and allowance, in such sort, as the Ambassadors and  
messengers of the great King of Kings should be furnished, it is not  
unknown what a fiction or fable (so it is esteemed, and for no better  
by the reporter himself, though superstitious) was devised; Namely,  
that at such a time as the professors and teachers of Christianity in  
the Church of Rome, then a true Church, were liberally endowed, a  
voice forsooth was heard from heaven, saying: Now is poison poured  
down into the Church, etc.

On 27 Jun 2008, at 15:05, radev at umich.edu wrote:

> Can you post it or say on which page/chapter it appears? I'd love to
> show it in class.
>
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>> 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.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <
>> scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> With best regards
>>>
>>> Scott Piao
>>>
>>> School of Computer Science
>>> The University of Manchester
>>> Manchester, UK
>>>
>>> Email: scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk
>>>
>>>
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>> 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 at manchester.ac.uk 
>> ">scott.piao at 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>
>> <br>
>> 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>
>> <br>
>> With best regards<br>
>> <br>
>> Scott Piao<br>
>> <br>
>> School of Computer Science<br>
>> The University of Manchester<br>
>> Manchester, UK<br>
>> <br>
>> Email: <a href="mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk 
>> </a><br>
>> <br>
>> <br>
>> <br>
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> Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
> SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
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