Example sentences of "[num] people were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard that two dozen people were in the fast-food outlet when the defendant came in . |
| 2 | At any one time , some 200,000 people were in the ET programme . |
| 3 | About 500 people were at the party , in a barn at Elmstone Hardwicke near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire . |
| 4 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 5 | Last month nearly two point seven million people were on the dole . |
| 6 | The survey estimated that 2.7 million people were in the top five categories , that is , suffering the most severe disabilities . |