Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] are [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She says , over 500 people are meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels today , to talk about disabled people 's human rights .
2 She says , over 500 people are meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels today , to talk about disabled people 's human rights .
3 Around 900 people are working in the area at present .
4 We have some new industries , I B M for example , but I B M are shedding labour at a very fast rate , something like seven hundred people are going in the next year , so we have our problems in Portsmouth .
5 erm For example if erm two people are walking down the street and there 's a certain amount of jostling , then the victim , if he is a victim , may well consider that it 's not violent , or that it 's nothing out of the ordinary , or that it 's something which is acceptable , and then not take the matter any farther .
6 FOUR people are standing for the chairmanship of the Scottish Liberal Democrats .
7 Is this one of the reasons why 1 million people are missing off the electoral register ?
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