Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [det] [num] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 20 the government reported that some 5,000 people had been detained and transported by air to the first two of five detention camps being set up in the Sahara region of southern Algeria . |
| 2 | The report stated that some 703,000 people relied on food aid , a much higher figure than the 429,000 cited by the government at a donor conference in New York in April . |
| 3 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 4 | Just before the men were charged , Le Monde published a confidential document prepared for the government in 1989 showing that some 360,000 people had been infected with blood contaminated by hepatitis because of inadequate testing of blood donors between 1980 and 1988 , when compulsory tests were introduced . |
| 5 | This means that these 43 people have lost any right to apply for an exit visa , whereas normally Jews waiting to leave keep on applying hoping that eventually the visa will be granted . |
| 6 | And then just as you were about to eat that another six people turned up so there were twelve altogether and you 'd have to shar share that |
| 7 | Mr Yuri Roshka , a spokesman for the Moldavian Popular Front , said that several thousand people clashed with police after clambering over tanks and other military vehicles preparing to move into Lenin Square in Kishinyev . |
| 8 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |