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The Written British National Corpus 2014 – Design and comparability. / Brezina, Vaclav; Hawtin, Abigail; McEnery, Anthony.
In: Text and Talk, Vol. 41, No. 5-6, 01.10.2021, p. 595-615.

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Brezina, V, Hawtin, A & McEnery, A 2021, 'The Written British National Corpus 2014 – Design and comparability', Text and Talk, vol. 41, no. 5-6, pp. 595-615. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0052

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Brezina, V., Hawtin, A., & McEnery, A. (2021). The Written British National Corpus 2014 – Design and comparability. Text and Talk, 41(5-6), 595-615. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0052

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Brezina V, Hawtin A, McEnery A. The Written British National Corpus 2014 – Design and comparability. Text and Talk. 2021 Oct 1;41(5-6):595-615. doi: 10.1515/text-2020-0052

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Brezina, Vaclav ; Hawtin, Abigail ; McEnery, Anthony. / The Written British National Corpus 2014 – Design and comparability. In: Text and Talk. 2021 ; Vol. 41, No. 5-6. pp. 595-615.

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