Example sentences of "[num] [num] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 300 million people suffer from the parasitic infection filariasis , Cholera , yellow fever , sleeping sickness leishmaniasis and leprosy affect tens of millions of people in tropical regions . |
| 2 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 3 | Between 1950 and 1970 some six million people moved from the central provinces and the frontier region with Portugal to the four major areas of industrial development in Spain . |
| 4 | At the Trocadero there were always six hundred people waiting in the 6d queue . |
| 5 | About 350 million people live in the Yangtze valley , and its thousands of kilometres of waterways are essential to commerce , industry , and fishing . |
| 6 | Nearly three million people died in the Korean War . |
| 7 | At the start they had over fourteen thousand people working in the park , after today 's announcement , they 'll have just over ten thousand . |
| 8 | More than ten thousand people died in the town . |
| 9 | During the autumn of that year , more than five million people took to the streets of Europe in support of the cause of European disarmament . |
| 10 | But her desire to provide a period of stability for nearly one million people employed by the NHS is coupled with a fierce determination to maintain the momentum of reform , with the overwhelming majority of hospitals becoming self-governing trusts by the mid-1990s . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of adults use pubs , and one million people work in the drinks industry or licensed trade . |
| 12 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 13 | In normal times , nearly 9 million people live in the four provinces of northern Ethiopia : Gondar : Wollo : Tigre and Eritrea . |
| 14 | The report points out that 70 million people live in the banana-shaped industrial complex which stretches from Britain to Italy . |
| 15 | Surely the world can not stand idly by and watch this country of eight million people go through the agony of war yet again ? |
| 16 | Bad news for the eight hundred thousand people living in the Tappajoss river region . |
| 17 | Do you know that nearly nine hundred thousand people walked off the streets of Britain into Citizen Advice Bureaux last year to ask for their help on employment issues because they had no trade union ? |
| 18 | The number of people who have died on our streets is equivalent to a hundred thousand people dying in the streets of Britain , if that were happening , then the House of Commons would be packed to the doors everyday , until they got it sorted out . |
| 19 | and we 're right on the main road and I reckon about two hundred people walked past the garden today watching us . |
| 20 | Due to the emigration of the people of East Germany to the West — there had been two million people removing in the ten years up to 1961 — a wall was constructed between that part of Berlin controlled by the Communists and the other parts which were controlled by the Federal republic with Britain , France and the United States of America . |
| 21 | In 1970 , for example , more than 200 000 people died in the cyclone and flooding of Bangladesh and in 1979 the hurricanes David and Frederick caused more than $3bn damage in the USA . |
| 22 | An estimated 2.5 million people come into the city every day , mostly by train . |
| 23 | The disintegration of the European empires after the last war was followed by 45 years of armed conflict in the ex-colonies , in which 20 million people died in the far east , in the Indian subcontinent , in the middle east , in Africa and even in the Caribbean . |
| 24 | In Halton Borough , Cheshire , for instance , there are 13 notifiable installations , with over 20 000 people living within the defined ‘ consultation zones ’ ( Petts 1988 ) . |