Example sentences of "[num] people [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 2 | 452,000 people emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1990 , mostly to Israel and West Germany — double the number emigrating in 1989 . |
| 3 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , he had ‘ reliable and authenticated ’ information that more than 1,000 and possibly more than 2,000 people died in the attack . |
| 4 | As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting . |
| 5 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 6 | During the morning over 100 people participated in the open classes taken by Chris Ruffle and Jane Fisk , who was accompanied by Molly Scrutton . |
| 7 | On February 3 , some 300,000 people marched through the Moroccan capital , Rabat , in the biggest demonstration there since independence in 1956 . |
| 8 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 9 | The facts of the war are simple : about a dozen people died during the Serbo-Croat conflict in Croatia in 1990-91 . |
| 10 | All three people went to the High School . |
| 11 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 12 | Which three people said after the 1983 general election : |
| 13 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 14 | Do you know that nearly nine hundred thousand people walked off the streets of Britain into Citizen Advice Bureaux last year to ask for their help on employment issues because they had no trade union ? |
| 15 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 16 | More than ten thousand people died in the town . |
| 17 | Voice of Ethiopia radio reported on Jan. 9 that the remains of several thousand people massacred during the 17-year regime of former President Mengistu Haile Mariam had been found in mass graves near Debre Zeit , 40 km south of the capital , Addis Ababa . |
| 18 | The inaugural meeting overflowed the Central Hall , Westminster , where 5,000 people listened to the historian A. J. P. Taylor listing the effects of an H-Bomb explosion . |
| 19 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 20 | Later , around 3,000 people marched on the parliament building , where there were minor scuffles with police . |
| 21 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 22 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 23 | On 24 May , 100,000 people marched through the Causeway Bay shopping district . |
| 24 | Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly . |
| 25 | Seventy people went for the job see . |
| 26 | Following violence between ANC and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) militants in the township of Bekkersdal , west of Johannesburg , where at least 11 people died in the first week of February , there was a joint peace appeal by the four main black political organisations . |
| 27 | Not a drop of rain fell on Bank Holiday Monday and about 2,200 people travelled on the ACE . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 29 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 30 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |