Your last search took too long to run. This is probably a combination of at least two things:

Your last search took too long to run. This is probably a combination of at least two things:

1. The size of the corpus (larger corpora like iWeb or NOW are slower than smaller corpora), or
2. The frequency of the words or strings in your search (at least one of the "slots" should be about 10 million words or less), AND
3. (Most importantly) Whether you are limiting the search to a particular section, or especially a subsection (towards the bottom of the "Section" list in the search form).

For example, if you search for "HAVE to VERB" (high frequency; #2 above) in NOW (large corpus; #1) AND limit it to a particular date range (subsection; #3), there is a good chance that the search will "time out".

Remember that all of the corpora are on the same machine, and that a long-running query will negatively impact other users of the corpora.

Please adjust your search, so that you don't have a combination of #1-2-3 above. If you have three queries or more that "time out" in a 15 minute period, you will be blocked from doing more searches for the 15 minutes after that (even if you log out and log back in).