Example sentences of "people lived in the " in BNC.

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1 Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves .
2 More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported .
3 Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) .
4 Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past .
5 How many people lived in the house ?
6 Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man .
7 Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent .
8 As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts .
9 In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 .
10 By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade .
11 Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development .
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