Example sentences of "[num] people at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Hay , who employs 49 people at the Stanway-based subsidiary of a Canadian company , said : ‘ I feel it is a good budget for business . |
| 2 | The complex project , which employed 7,500 people at the height of construction , will continue to provide substantial numbers of jobs to contractors , in support of commissioning , for the rest of 1992 . |
| 3 | There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next . |
| 4 | And we were doing that in front of 30 people at the Mean Fiddler . |
| 5 | Another 30 people at the disaster scene have been treated for sickness . |
| 6 | ‘ We are expecting about 300 people at the supporters ’ club after the funeral because Dennis was such a character and everybody who went on away matches knew him . ’ |
| 7 | The last of the finals was on Saturday night ( after a luncheon at the Rivercrest Country Club ) , with works of Chopin , Brahms and Rachmaninov that we had come to know and love ; and there must have been 700 people at the Forth Worth Club party afterwards . |
| 8 | It 's the last rehearsal before the big day , when Oxford 's New Horizons choir perform before 2,000 people at the Opera House in Blackpool . |
| 9 | At least six people at the showroom saw the man , who 's described as white , in his late twenties , around 5 feet 6 , slim with a neat beard and dark brown hair . |
| 10 | Yeah , it 's interesting that we talk about single parent families but the two or three people at the beginning talked about erm , the one parent , the father was in actual fact , I know he was actually resident there was probably his his erm interest was non-existent . |
| 11 | If they believe that by cutting the salaries of two or three people at the top of the operation they can pay for all those goodies they are living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 12 | A policeman , James Allen Moore , killed three people at the west Belfast offices of Sinn Féin on Feb. 4 and later apparently committed suicide . |
| 13 | There were about one thousand people at the crime fiction convention ; mostly American , female and in trousers . |
| 14 | Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam … |
| 15 | By modern European standards , Zurich is not a big city , not yet 400,000 people at the time of writing , but it is still the largest in Switzerland . |
| 16 | In one incident on Oct. 7 , unknown assailants killed 18 people at the funeral of a murdered ANC member , in an attack similar to that on Inkatha supporters on Sept. 8 [ see p. 38422 ] . |
| 17 | recorded live in front of 125,000 people at the band 's August Party In The Park show , and also featured on the band 's forthcoming LP ‘ Live Alive Quo ’ |
| 18 | Ms Gallacher , 20 , a hairdresser , told the court that there were about 500 people at the party in a warehouse or old school . |
| 19 | And she too has a ‘ sporting background ’ in that she is one of about 500 people at the last count who were in the same class in the Primate Dixon PS in Coalisland as snooker superstar Denis Taylor ! |
| 20 | In Manchester they played to twenty-five people at the now sadly defunct gay bar Manhattan Sound . |
| 21 | Allowing for 120 proxy votes and some 50 people at the AGM , less than half the AFBD membership bothered to register their opinion . |
| 22 | Plans to improve Elstead Village Hall and turn it into a community centre were outlined to a gathering of about 50 people at the annual general meeting in the hall . |
| 23 | Present this voucher to admit up to 6 people at the discounted admission prices above , any opening day in 1992 . |
| 24 | A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide . |
| 25 | For this afternoon 's rematch of the Welsh Cup finalists — Neath won that one 14-13 before 58,000 people at the Arms Park — Stradey has an upper limit of 18,700 and , if last season 's equivalent is anything to go by , every available space may be needed . |
| 26 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 27 | The campaign waged by both public and hospital staff was one of the biggest in east London 's political history : over seven hundred people at the York Hall , the old boxing venue , twenty thousand signed petitions , a two-hour protest strike and the first-ever hospital work-in , which kept the hospital running for a month and treated eleven hundred emergencies after its official date of closure . |
| 28 | At the Brixton Academy one stated : ‘ Last night , there ca n't have been two hundred people at the gig and I sold twice as many burgers and hot dogs than I did today . |
| 29 | He recalled also that the company had won awards for quality and production but added : ‘ It will be difficult to portray that image when there are several hundred people at the factory gate shouting abuse at prospective customers . ’ |
| 30 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |