Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [num] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this riot , which involved 100,000 people , political processions were banned in the Metropolitan Police area for six months . |
| 2 | It quotes Wansbeck in Northumberland , which has 47,498 people on its register , as having issued 26,549 summonses between April 1990 and last September , which resulted in 21,382 liability orders . |
| 3 | The accommodation in La Penita consists of apartments which sleep 2–3 people , and are fully equipped with kitchenette , private facilities and either balconies or terrace . |
| 4 | The properties , which sleep four people , are based at Rosecraddoc Manor , set in 38 acres of woodlands near Liskeard . |
| 5 | Each centre has a catalogue library , holds an annual exhibition , provides grants for working artists , arranges international touring exhibitions , promotes artist and student exchanges , gives out information on grants , and administers the Soros Visiting Senior Research Fellowship program at the National Gallery of Art , Washington which funds two people per term to study art history . |
| 6 | A team at London 's Institute of Cancer are to try out a vaccine developed by gene technology against melanoma , which kills 2,000 people in Britain each year . |
| 7 | MND is a muscle wasting condition which kills three people in the UK each day : there is , currently , no treatment or cure and is always fatal . |
| 8 | It is condoning promotion of a drug which kills 110,000 people a year … it is , quite simply , unethical . ’ |
| 9 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |
| 10 | On 27 May it organised a ‘ Concert for Democracy in China ’ at the Happy Valley racecourse , which attracted 300,000 people , and was broadcast live on two television and two radio stations . |
| 11 | The Gay News Defence Committee organised many forms of protest , including a march and meeting in Trafalgar Square which attracted 5,000 people . |
| 12 | The event follows a similar meeting in the House of Commons which attracted 200 people . |
| 13 | The introduction of the test for drivers , which could be available in April , has been prompted by the realisation that driver error is responsible for 95 per cent of road accidents which kill 14 people a day on UK roads . |
| 14 | British Rail is investigating the role of temporary hand-signalling in a head-on crash between two trains at Huddersfield which injured 17 people on Monday night . |
| 15 | Last week 's Manchester bombing , which injured 67 people , has convinced police forces outside London that random searches are necessary . |
| 16 | The ( Castroist ) Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) bombed a dozen Lima banks on Nov. 4 and carried out a grenade attack on the presidential palace on Nov. 5 which wounded three people . |
| 17 | It will be dispatched by mail , fax and via electronic mail , through networks such as the Association for Progressive Communications , which reaches 15,000 people in 92 countries . |
| 18 | The study is aimed at the victims of maturity diabetes , which affects 600,000 people in Britain , and will try to find ways of preventing or delaying the disease . |
| 19 | One thinks of the Moorgate crash in 1975 which killed 42 people and seriously injured 75 ; one thinks of the Goodge Street fire of 1981 and , inevitably , King 's Cross . |
| 20 | The Police Complaints Authority is going to investigate three complaints against officers involved in the Hillsborough football disaster which killed 95 people last April . |
| 21 | The mafia were suspected of planting a car bomb in the historic centre of Florence , which killed six people and injured many more . |
| 22 | The unrest , which killed 11 people , spread elswhere in the south , the traditional base for support for the Hashemite regime ; first to al Hassaniyeh and al Tufeila , and then up to Kerak , Madaba and Salt . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , fighting between the rival Christian units continued ; on April 18 a school bus travelling through East Beirut was hit in crossfire which killed 11 people , mostly children . |
| 24 | The LTTE was held responsible for a car bomb in the capital , Colombo , which killed 11 people , a bus bomb in Ampara which killed 25 , and ambushes near Trincomalee and Batticaloa where 20 people were killed . |
| 25 | Other stars were on the isle when the storm — which killed four people with gusts of 175mph — struck as they filmed Steven Spielberg 's latest thriller . |
| 26 | On July 6 Danielle Mitterrand , wife of the French President François Mitterrand , escaped with minor injuries during a car-bomb attack near Sulaimaniya which killed four people . |
| 27 | When the track and the signals at the ageing junction were due for renewal , British Rail had chosen the cheapest option to enable InterCity trains to travel faster at the expense of local services , the inquiry into the 1991 disaster which killed four people and injured 22 , was told . |
| 28 | The government accused Escobar of masterminding a double car bombing in Bogota on Monday which killed four people and injured dozens more . |
| 29 | POLICE were last night hunting a ‘ maniac ’ driver who is said to have caused a crash which killed five people , including two young children . |
| 30 | On March 20 Junzo Okudaira was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting a car bomb which killed five people outside a US servicemen 's club in Naples in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |