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from numpy import average
from sussex_nltk.corpus_readers import ReutersCorpusReader
rcr = ReutersCorpusReader()
sample_size = 1000 #The number of sentences in a sample
#Randomly sample 1000 sentences, and build a list of the lengths of each sentence
sentence_lengths = [len(sentence) for sentence in rcr.sample_sents(sample_size)]
#Calculate and print the average sentence length
print "Average sentence length: %s" average(sentence_lengths)
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