Example sentences of "[num] people [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very few times an accurate cross goes in its nothing to do with planning … just the law of averages and that s helped by the fact they normally have more than 2 people heading into the box . |
| 2 | The success of the wine evening on the Friday of the October play , was a pleasant surprise to us all with approximately forty people staying after the performance for a glass of wine , a look round the set and backstage . |
| 3 | On the allotted day , some forty people crowded into an upstairs office at Vernon Yard . |
| 4 | An estimated 2,000,000 people participated in a referendum on Puerto Rico 's future relationship with the United States , held on Dec. 8 . |
| 5 | During the four weeks an estimated 66000 people passed through the lounge when the team was present . |
| 6 | Another centrepiece of the government 's emergency legislation is the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974 ( redrawn in 1976 and 1984 ) , passed in the wake of the Birmingham pub bombings of November 1974 , in which twenty-one people died as a result of two bomb blasts . |
| 7 | Only 34,000 people live in the area which could be affected by noise , compared with 143,000 who would be affected if a second runway was built at Manchester . |
| 8 | Only 34,000 people live in the area which could be affected by noise compared with the 143,000 who would be affected if a second runway was built at Manchester . |
| 9 | Most of the 22 people living in the houses have moved from Newchurch Hospital , Warrington . |
| 10 | A REFUSAL by the Republic 's Government to provide funds for a memorial to the 22 people killed in the loyalist bomb attack on Dublin in 1974 has angered the Dublin City Council . |
| 11 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 12 | Ethnic violence in Sind continued with the death of at least 30 people waiting at a bus stop in the Qayyumabad area of Karachi . |
| 13 | More than 30 people arrested at the end of November 1991 are reported to have ‘ disappeared ’ , raising fears that they to have also been killed . |
| 14 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 15 | More than 50,000 people living in a six-mile danger area have been evacuated but , even with lava heading for them , some have refused to leave . |
| 16 | 50,000 people work in the ES . |
| 17 | At the time , Bethnal Green was a relatively compact borough of about 50,000 people concentrated within a very small area ( about 2 square miles ) , with no major roads running through it . |
| 18 | In the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica , the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has managed to feed and keep alive 50,000 people crammed into a space once occupied by 7,000 . |
| 19 | In the fiercely free enterprise USA , home ownership , as in the UK , is the mark of responsible citizenship , and home ownership is just what the 12 people living in the clapboard house have achieved . |
| 20 | Exchanges of gunfire between the riot police and retired Sandinista soldiers reportedly left 12 people wounded in the capital , Managua , on July 20-21 . |
| 21 | They visited all the factories and shops they could squeeze into their brief , allotted time and the highlight of their visit was a Silver Anniversary Ball when 700 people gathered at the leisure centre near Deeside , Queensferry . |
| 22 | About 3,500 cases of malignant melanoma ( cancerous moles ) are diagnosed in Britain every year — and about 800 people die of the disease . |
| 23 | The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] . |
| 24 | It was the worst air accident in France since 1974 , when 346 people died in a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crash near Paris [ see p. 26426 ] . |
| 25 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |
| 26 | Over 1,200 people died as a result , and earth was scorched for miles around . |
| 27 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 28 | Only 1,200 people voted in the elections , but the process was traditionally regarded as important since election to Chambers of Commerce and professional associations represented the sole form of democratic practice in the occupied territories [ see p. 38788 for Gaza elections in January and February ] . |
| 29 | 452,000 people emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1990 , mostly to Israel and West Germany — double the number emigrating in 1989 . |
| 30 | Reynolds 's News described how a ‘ big and angry crowd ’ of Wolves fans estimated at 2,000 people gathered outside the officials ' entrance , protesting at the club 's policy of selling its better players . |