Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [num] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 's figures include the IRA Teebane massacre in Co Tyrone , the UFF slaughter at Sean Graham 's bookmakers on Belfast 's Ormeau Road , and the gunning down of three people at Sinn Fein 's Belfast headquarters by rogue cop Alan Moore . |
| 2 | When Emma Bovary dies , her body is watched over by two people : the priest , and Homais the pharmacien . |
| 3 | Already over 400 people have been shed since the beginning of the year , and the Prime Computer Inc that is going public on revised terms and will change its name to Computervision Corp , will end up with 5,900 people , and annual sales of some $1,200m , mainly computer-aided design software and maintenance . |
| 4 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 5 | Siemens Nixdorf 's workforce this year is expected to be cut by at least 600 additional people , up from 200 people last year , due to the general decline in demand for computer products . |
| 6 | Up to nine people can be tested with their results stored for later retrieval , results can be shown in numeric or graph form in a choice of categories . |
| 7 | Up to nine people were killed in violent disturbances in the capital , San'aa , on Oct. 19 ; the next day there were a number of arrests at a demonstration to protest about the authorities ' failure to find the killers of opposition figure and rural development official Hassan Huraibi , who had been murdered on Sept. 10 . |
| 8 | The security forces are said not to have intervened when up to 100,000 people demonstrated in Timisoara on Wednesday evening . |
| 9 | Up to 100,000 people a year investigate the possibilities of building a home for themselves . |
| 10 | Traditionally up to 100,000 people cram into Trafalgar Square as midnight approaches . |
| 11 | He masterminded the mass bombing of Dresden in 1945 when up to 100,000 people were killed . |
| 12 | Under pressure from the Serbian government , and sometimes violent attack by the 10,000 or so armed Serb toughs in the province , up to 100,000 people may have left Kosovo in the past couple of years . |
| 13 | Bulgarian leaders raised further objections after up to 100,000 people had held a rally on Feb. 20 in Skopje , capital of Yugoslavia 's Macedonian republic , to show solidarity with Bulgaria 's Macedonians . |
| 14 | On Jan. 20 up to 100,000 people marched through central Moscow protesting against the killings in Lithuania and calling for Gorbachev 's resignation . |
| 15 | On April 10 the strike committee brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets of Minsk . |
| 16 | Demonstrations of up to 100,000 people before the elections were accompanied by calls from the Azerbaijani People 's Front for their boycott and for a general strike . |
| 17 | On April 1 , as most of the welfare cuts were implemented , there were widespread protests throughout the country involving up to 100,000 people , the largest demonstrations since those in 1981 against the South African rugby tour . |
| 18 | Armed skirmishes took place in Dushanbe between supporters and opponents of the government in the first week of May and large demonstrations and counter-demonstrations were held , with up to 100,000 people gathering on May 5 . |
| 19 | Type B ( up to 4 people ) apartments have a twin room and lounge with two divan beds . |
| 20 | He went on to celebrate mass on the Letna Plain in Prague in the presence of up to 1,500,000 people . |
| 21 | Up to 1,500,000 people were estimated to have voted , although congestion at the polling stations meant that some 30,000 voters had been unable to vote when the polling stations closed at midnight . |
| 22 | A rough guide , until you work out your own preferences , is to look for amplifiers of 100 watts for meetings up to 150 people ; 200 watts up to 500 people ; 500 watts up to 1,000 people and 1,000–1,500 watts up to 3,000 people . |
| 23 | Government sources subsequently acknowledged that up to 3,000 people had been involved in the demonstrations , and that 200 had been injured ; unofficial sources suggested that as many as 280 students had lost their lives , together with twenty-nine policemen and soldiers . |
| 24 | A demonstration on April 2 by up to 3,000 people outside the DP headquarters in the capital , Tirana , was dispersed by police firing into the air . |
| 25 | Maggot farm odours , to mention but one source , have been known to spread over several miles and affect up to 20,000 people . |
| 26 | Economists have told me this could be the final push that will consign up to 250,000 people to the scrap heap . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Whalley said the action could result in a multi-million pound claim by up to 250,000 people . |
| 28 | It would also lead to the forcible relocation of up to 250,000 people , many of them from small tribal communities . |
| 29 | He also called for urgent medical treatment and compensation for local residents , official estimates on the following day stating that the health of up to 120,000 people could have been endangered , principally by a beryllium oxide gas cloud which had settled over Ust Kamenogorsk for five hours after the accident ( beryllium contamination could cause disfunction of the lungs , liver , kidneys and central nervous system ) . |
| 30 | Up to eight people are missing and others have severe burns . |