Example sentences of "[num] people [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , 113 people died this way — nearly half of them by inhaling fumes from lighter refills . |
| 2 | And 12 people representing various departments within Celomer have formed a Training Commission . |
| 3 | Information was obtained about 1,200 people approaching local authority departments with financial needs not met by their weekly benefits , and about 1,084 people approaching Citizens ' Advice Bureaux ( CABs ) . |
| 4 | New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States . |
| 5 | Firms employing less than 100 people have higher death and injury rates than bigger ones . |
| 6 | 100 people aged 65–90 ( 70 women ) newly referred to the teams . |
| 7 | 711 people formed 149 households in the central area of the town . |
| 8 | Since the closure announcement , an active job search programme has been mounted to help the 360 people made redundant . |
| 9 | ABOUT 120,000 pregnant women and 30,000 people attending sexually-transmitted disease clinics will be tested anonymously for HIV next year , the Department of Health said yesterday . |
| 10 | This trip included an overnight stop with a dinner of bear meat , dried fish , bread and forest berries , followed by all six people sharing one enormous bed ! |
| 11 | If there are six people walking abreast there is little chance that they will create an avenue for you to go through . |
| 12 | Additional serum samples were taken in December 1990 from a randomly selected cohort of 141 people aged 40–65 years . |
| 13 | Last year Thames Valley police cautioned or prosecuted sixteen hundred and seventy-three people possessing controlled drugs . |
| 14 | Costs are split between employers and workers ; over 600 people travel each day ; most work in light-manufacturing jobs , not services ; and each earns an average hourly wage above $6 — nearly twice the minimum wage . |
| 15 | I also learnt that the three people called each other by names . |
| 16 | However , on Feb. 12 an inspector of the Indian Intelligence Bureau was one of three people shot dead by secessionist militants in Srinagar , the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state . |
| 17 | THREE people died last night in a five-vehicle pile-up on the A1 at Sandy , Beds . |
| 18 | Singles may book any rooms ‘ willing to share ’ , and if three people occupy any room , each pays £7 per week less . |
| 19 | Only three people reported any instances of negative attitudes from patients or clients . |
| 20 | A possible solution to both problems is to arrange for two or three people to share one post . |
| 21 | Were n't you going to ask were n't you going to suggest that three people choose this ? |
| 22 | AFAILURE of the signalling system — which occurred when a signal box wire that should have been removed was not , thus preventing the signal from turning to red — caused the Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died last December 12 , according to the report of the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , QC . |
| 23 | adoption , and possibly a thousand people wanting those four babies ! |
| 24 | Over a thousand people brought wooden crosses in the shape of the radiation hazard symbol and planted them along the grass verge entrance to the power station . |
| 25 | Two thousand people representing 86 teams from all over the world gathered together for a week 's fun , friendship and fraternity . |
| 26 | A detailed study revealed that in Britain approximately 1,600 accidents caused by dogs result in human injury , with about 17 people dying each year as a direct consequence of such incidents . |
| 27 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 28 | DEC has named Unix whiz-kid Alan Nemeth , the technical leader of DEC 's Unix development , a corporate consulting engineer , one of only sixteen people holding such a title at the firm . |
| 29 | And that interest was reflected when over 100,000 people filled six blocks of George Street from Circular Quay to the Town Hall to cheer home the Wallabies . |
| 30 | In Yemen an official statement on Jan. 17 said that " the military action aimed basically at destroying fraternal Iraq " was " a flagrant challenge to the declared will of the world " ; the Guardian reported that an estimated 100,000 people carrying pro-Iraqi banners attended an anti-US rally the same day in the capital , Sana'a . |