Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [num] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 2 | By the end of the three days of what one eyewitness described as a " vigilante rampage " , the Health Ministry announced that six people were dead and 502 hospitalized , seven in a serious condition . |
| 3 | In 1990 , when Chile returned to civilian rule , The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation confirmed that 957 people had ‘ disappeared ’ under military rule , the majority of them between 1973 and 1978 . |
| 4 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 5 | In all the Group estimated that 300,000 people had served prison sentences of two or more years in East Germany since 1945 . |
| 6 | A report to the meeting says that 24 people , living in 14 properties near the plant , had signed a petition strongly objecting to the proposal . |
| 7 | Provisional figures yesterday from the Department of Transport showed that 4,274 people were killed in 1992 — 6 per cent fewer than in 1991 . |
| 8 | For instance , the Department of Social Security estimates that 660,000 people on means tested benefit lost 70% or more of each additional 1 of income ( Willman 1992 ) . |
| 9 | Fresh figures from the Commons library show that 348,000 people worked in manufacturing in December 1992 and there were 342,092 unemployed Scots looking for work in February 1993 . |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the regional health authority said that 206 people on the two-year list were treated during March . |
| 11 | A party of Argentinian scrap merchants landed on South Georgia and as this report came in , the government announced that 4000 people were to be fired from the Royal Navy . |
| 12 | A spokesperson for the Vietnamese government estimated that 700 people would leave every month and that a total of between 400,000 and 450,000 were eligible to leave Vietnam under the resettlement programme . |
| 13 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 14 | On Feb. 20 Nepali Radio reported that three people died when attacking a police station in the village of Jaddukuha in south-eastern Janakpur . |
| 15 | The World Jewish Congress estimated that 50,000 people might benefit from the US$630,000,000 allocated by the German government for payments between 1992 and the end of the century . |
| 16 | But Rebecca Hall insisted the challenge stipulated that five people must squeeze in together . |
| 17 | The United Kingdom-based Save the Children Fund estimated that 10,000,000 people faced starvation and that Sudan and Ethiopia each required 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 tonnes of food immediately to avert a catastrophe . |
| 18 | The report stated that eight people — including three legislators from the ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) , two from the opposition Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , and a presidential aide — had accepted 990,000,000 won [ nearly US$1,400,000 ] in bribes from a building conglomerate — Hanbo Housing Development Co — in return for pressurizing the Seoul municipal authorities into granting permission for Hanbo to build 4,000 apartments in the Suso district , part of the capital 's green belt . |
| 19 | The report stated that 250 people had disappeared or had been put to death in the " emergency zones " since he took office in August 1990 . |
| 20 | As tensions and clashes continued in eastern Ethiopia between government forces and forces of the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) , an organization known as the Ethiopian Human Rights Council on July 16 published in Addis Ababa a report claiming that 13 people had been summarily executed by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) in the period March to June 1992 . |
| 21 | The government version said that 12 people had been killed and more than 200 injured as a result of " general panic " after a grenade went off , and that 11 had died " on our side " . |
| 22 | A new report claims that twelve people die each hour as a result of smoking , at a cost to hospitals of four hundred and thirty-seven million pounds . |
| 23 | The survey revealed that 100,000 people had injected drugs in the past five years , with more than half sharing needles . |
| 24 | We need a signature one signature on unless of course the company says that two people have got to sign it but you have to find that out . |
| 25 | The survey shows that 861 people needed various types of accommodation . |
| 26 | He did not take the sheaf of notes Marshall tendered but made him recite the relevant ones and in that way learned that three people said they had been wearing clothes which were , at least in part , cream-coloured . |
| 27 | Overall the OPCS survey indicates that 3,323,000 people aged 60 and over have problems with mobility . |
| 28 | Subsequent reports put the numbers of dead and wounded far higher , the opposition daily Madagascar Tribune claiming that 138 people had been killed by the guard , and that , in addition , 40 to 80 corpses had been found in a mass grave . |
| 29 | If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ? |