Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [num] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well erm I I normally work four days a week but I 'm not working today because we 're having about twenty people around for a buffet supper tonight so I 'm very busy cooking . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The USAF itself is stationing about 2000 people in Britain to supervise and operate the missiles . |
| 4 | In 1988 the celebration meeting was numbering around 2000 people and facilities at the school at which the meeting was taking place were being stretched . |
| 5 | The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the 1920s TB of bovine origin from cattle was killing over 3,000 people a year in the United Kingdom . |