Example sentences of "be [verb] that [adv] [num] people " in BNC.
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1 | In Britain alone , it has been calculated that about 200,000 people may be bitten by dogs each year . |
2 | It 's estimated that around 700 people die in house fires in Britain each year . |
3 | In speeches summing up for Yeltsin it was claimed that about 40,000,000 people had been " eliminated " by the CPSU , and that 19,840,000 " enemies of the people " had been repressed . |
4 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
5 | It was estimated that over 5,000 people attended . |