diff --git a/concordia/concordia.cpp b/concordia/concordia.cpp
index 0972333..e855dc6 100644
--- a/concordia/concordia.cpp
+++ b/concordia/concordia.cpp
@@ -176,6 +176,17 @@ void Concordia::_initializeIndex() throw(ConcordiaException) {
     }
 }
 
+SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE Concordia::countOccurences(const std::string & pattern)
+                                                 throw(ConcordiaException) {
+    if (_T->size() > 0) {
+        return _searcher->countOccurences(_hashGenerator, _T,
+                                         _markers, _SA, pattern);
+    } else {
+        return 0;
+    }
+}
+
+
 std::vector<MatchedPatternFragment> Concordia::simpleSearch(
                                           const std::string & pattern)
                                   throw(ConcordiaException) {
diff --git a/concordia/concordia.hpp b/concordia/concordia.hpp
index 3deb2b1..38bd034 100644
--- a/concordia/concordia.hpp
+++ b/concordia/concordia.hpp
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ public:
                                               const std::string & pattern)
                                                  throw(ConcordiaException);
 
+    SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE countOccurences(const std::string & pattern)
+                                          throw(ConcordiaException);
+
     /*! \deprecated
         Finds the examples from the index, whose resemblance to the
         pattern is maximal. This method may perform very slow,
diff --git a/concordia/index_searcher.cpp b/concordia/index_searcher.cpp
index 79d5b48..f257191 100644
--- a/concordia/index_searcher.cpp
+++ b/concordia/index_searcher.cpp
@@ -52,6 +52,45 @@ std::vector<MatchedPatternFragment> IndexSearcher::simpleSearch(
     return result;
 }
 
+SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE IndexSearcher::countOccurences(
+                  boost::shared_ptr<HashGenerator> hashGenerator,
+                  boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<sauchar_t> > T,
+                  boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE> > markers,
+                  boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<saidx_t> > SA,
+                  const std::string & pattern) throw(ConcordiaException) {
+    int left;
+    std::vector<INDEX_CHARACTER_TYPE> hash =
+                            hashGenerator->generateHash(pattern).getCodes();
+
+    // append sentence boundary marker, as we are looking only for exact sentence matches
+    hash.push_back(INDEX_CHARACTER_TYPE_MAX_VALUE);
+    
+    saidx_t patternLength = hash.size()*sizeof(INDEX_CHARACTER_TYPE);
+    sauchar_t * patternArray = Utils::indexVectorToSaucharArray(hash);
+
+    int size = sa_search(T->data(), (saidx_t) T->size(),
+                         (const sauchar_t *) patternArray, patternLength,
+                         SA->data(), (saidx_t) SA->size(), &left);
+                         
+    SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE occurencesCount = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
+        saidx_t resultPos = SA->at(left + i);
+        if (resultPos % sizeof(INDEX_CHARACTER_TYPE) == 0) {
+        // As we are looking for a pattern in an array of higher
+        // resolution than the hashed index file, we might
+        // obtain accidental results exceeding the boundaries
+        // of characters in hashed index. The above check
+        // removes these accidental results.
+            occurencesCount++;
+        }
+    }
+
+    delete[] patternArray;
+    
+    return occurencesCount;
+}
+
+
 std::vector<AnubisSearchResult> IndexSearcher::anubisSearch(
                   boost::shared_ptr<ConcordiaConfig> config,
                   boost::shared_ptr<HashGenerator> hashGenerator,
diff --git a/concordia/index_searcher.hpp b/concordia/index_searcher.hpp
index 7393fee..fbf64f4 100644
--- a/concordia/index_searcher.hpp
+++ b/concordia/index_searcher.hpp
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ public:
                     boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<saidx_t> > SA,
                     const std::string & pattern) throw(ConcordiaException);
 
+    SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE countOccurences(
+                    boost::shared_ptr<HashGenerator> hashGenerator,
+                    boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<sauchar_t> > T,
+                    boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<SUFFIX_MARKER_TYPE> > markers,
+                    boost::shared_ptr<std::vector<saidx_t> > SA,
+                    const std::string & pattern) throw(ConcordiaException);
+
     /*! \deprecated
         Finds the examples from the index, whose resemblance to the
         pattern is maximal. This method may perform very slow,
diff --git a/concordia/t/test_concordia.cpp b/concordia/t/test_concordia.cpp
index 8241fce..01cc31a 100644
--- a/concordia/t/test_concordia.cpp
+++ b/concordia/t/test_concordia.cpp
@@ -379,4 +379,49 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( Tokenize )
     BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(tokenizedSentences.at(2).getTokens().size(), 5);
     
 }
+
+BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( ConcordiaCountOccurences )
+{
+    Concordia concordia = Concordia(TestResourcesManager::getTestConcordiaConfigFilePath("concordia.cfg"));
+    concordia.addExample(Example("Ala posiada kota",14));
+    concordia.addExample(Example("Ala posiada rysia",51));
+    concordia.addExample(Example("Ala posiada kota",16));
+    concordia.addExample(Example("Marysia posiada rysia",123));
+    concordia.addExample(Example("Ala posiada kota i psa",542));
+    concordia.refreshSAfromRAM();
+        
+    /*The test index contains 3 sentences:    
+     14: "Ala posiada kota"
+     51: "Ala posiada rysia"
+    123: "Marysia posiada rysia"
+    
+    Test word map:
+    Ala -> 0
+    posiada -> 1
+    kota -> 2
+    rysia -> 3
+    Marysia -> 4
+    
+    Test hashed index:
+        n: 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11
+     T[n]: 0  1  2  |  0  1  3  |  4  1  3  |
+    
+    Test suffix array:
+        n: 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11
+    SA[n]: 0  4  1  9  5  2 10  6  8 11  3  7 
+    
+    */
+    
+    
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(concordia.countOccurences("Ala posiada"), 0);
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(concordia.countOccurences("Marysia posiada"), 0);
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(concordia.countOccurences("Marysia posiada rysia"), 1);
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(concordia.countOccurences("kota Ala posiada"), 0);
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(concordia.countOccurences("Ala posiada kota"), 2);
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(concordia.countOccurences("Ala posiada kota i psa"), 1);
+
+    concordia.clearIndex();
+
+}
+
 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()