Running ls -l in the directory /home/corpora/english/soc.text gives the following result:
total 1448 -rw-r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 2383 Sep 1 12:36 README -r--r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 274036 Sep 1 12:36 first.ed -r--r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 263649 Sep 1 12:36 first.sents drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 12:40 processed/ -r--r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 228558 Sep 1 12:36 second.ed -r--r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 219154 Sep 1 12:36 second.sents -r--r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 231618 Sep 1 12:36 third.ed -r--r--r-- 1 ebender ebender 222889 Sep 1 12:36 third.sents
The numbers in the column before the date column give the size of the file in charaters. Most of the files in this directory have over 10,000 characters.