History
The project to create the BNC involved the collaboration of three publishers (with the Oxford University Press as the lead collaborator, Longman and W. & R. Chambers), two universities (the University of Oxford and Lancaster University) and the British Library.
The creation of the BNC started in 1991 under the management of the BNC consortium and the project was finished by 1994. There have been no additions of new samples after 1994 but the BNC underwent slight revisions before the release of the second edition BNC World (2001) and the third edition BNC XML Edition (2007).
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