Example sentences of "people live [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 2 | To me , he said in a quavering voice , ‘ When I was a young man , people lived to be fifty-five or sixty . |
| 3 | Only a minority of people lived to be grandparents . |
| 4 | Michael Anderson 's work has been particularly important in establishing the significance of considering the material gains for either or both parties , if we wish to understand why people lived with relatives in the past . |
| 5 | The old religions under which people lived for ninety-nine point nine per cent of human history have decayed or are irrelevant . |
| 6 | The people lived for seven days in shelters made of branches — essentially as an agricultural thanksgiving , but also as a reminder of their tent-dwelling days in the wilderness ( Leviticus 23:43 ) . |
| 7 | and suddenly I mean people lived for centuries there |
| 8 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 9 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 10 | Archaeologists can reveal only very fragmentary glimpses of how people lived at any period , but what they imagined and thought is beyond recovery — the meagre scraps of records are useless or , at best , tantalizing in that they provide details torn from their context . |
| 11 | The the the the so called better off people lived at the top half , and the the the poorer type of people or the poorer class of property was on the bottom half , oddly enough and er |
| 12 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 13 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 14 | Many people lived on a similar diet , and chases took place slowly . |
| 15 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 16 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 17 | In 1980 , only 8% of people lived on their own ( double the percentage in 1961 ) , though this does not signify social detachment from a family . |
| 18 | Mr Rowse the healer at 93 Mafeking Street , a Miss Potter and sixteen cats at No. 95 , themselves at No. 97 , a Mr Hill in a ménage à trois at No. 90 — perhaps all the normal people lived down another street ? |
| 19 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 20 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 21 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 22 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 23 | D. At the time when the population started to increase rapidly , most people lived in small villages and worked on farms . |
| 24 | The exhibition will tell the story of the development of the Castle through the ages , how they were built , how they were used , and how people lived in them . |
| 25 | It 's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever . |
| 26 | The young people lived in hope and waited with great expectations . |
| 27 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 28 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Even in 1911 over three-quarters of the British people lived in urban districts , the proportion being less in Northern Ireland where Belfast remains the only large industrial city . |
| 30 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |