Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / February 2004

Hello all,

I am doing a dissertation which requires me to use a wide corpus
of English. I have looked at the BNC and the Bank of English but
the costs are prohibitive as I am funding this myself.
Has anyone any idea where I might get a corpus of a few million
words which I can use for concordancing and word frequency-of-use
analysis?

I would really appreciate any help or advice you guys could give
me.

Thanks,

Howard.