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Appendix 1
Size and list of texts used in the studyEnglish # Clauses # Words
Reports 114 3,311
Commentaries 290 6,977
Total 404 10,288Spanish # Clauses # Words
Reports 111 3,338
Commentaries 111 3,453
Total 222 6,791English reports and commentariesText reference Author and title Source, year # Clauses # Words
Report 1 Adam Sage, ‘Dominique Strauss-
Kahn, head of the IMF, escapes
dismissal over affair’Times online,
200811 341Report 2 Carl Mortished, ‘Opec hawks
want to cut oil production to
keep up price’Times online,
200816 422Report 3 Suzy Jagger and Mike Harvey,
‘Microsoft results offer hope to
tech sector’Times online,
200813 315Report 4 Lilly Peel, ‘Dutch Government to
inject €10bn of fresh capital into
ING savings bank’Times online,
200815 347Report 5 Leo Lewis, ‘G7 ‘preparing to
drive down the yen’’Times online,
200815 566Report 6 Lilly Peel, ‘Ukraine agrees terms
of $16.5bn rescue by IMF’Times online,
20085 121Report 7 Grainne Gilmore, ‘Barclays
rejects government funding,
secures £5.8bn from Qatar
and Abu Dhabi’Times online,
200821 593Report 8 Gary Duncan, ‘US economy
officially on brink of recession’Times online,
200818 606Comment 1 Shlomo Ben-Ami, ‘The Bigger
Issue in Sudan’The project
syndicate, 200933 798