Example sentences of "[num] people [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even here in Princeton ( only about 7,500 students ) the soccer team managed to draw a couple of thousand people to watch their first round end of season game . |
| 2 | Every year , 80,000 people suffer their first heart attack . |
| 3 | Six hundred people had their last proper wash for 3,000 miles . |
| 4 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 5 | Currently about 900,000 people celebrate their twentieth birthday ( although this total will fall by a quarter within the next decade ) , while an average of 600,000 people reach the age of forty-five , a total of 1.5 million people . |
| 6 | ( At Lasham I estimated about 1 in 400 people making their first glider flights were very sensitive to low ‘ g ’ . ) |