Example sentences of "number [prep] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter . |
| 2 | the number of people served each morning for a week |
| 3 | the number of people served each afternoon |
| 4 | While the number of people drawing such assistance grew steadily during the post-war period , the size of this group has exploded since 1979 . |
| 5 | If the agent knows that a publisher , a record company and a manager have all invested , at least he or she can feel there are a number of people needing this act to be successful . |
| 6 | An increasing number of people think that could be Gerald Ratner himself . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly a number of people travelled this way from other parts of Kent and Sussex , probably more to Rochester than Canterbury . |
| 8 | But it is quite clear that a large number of people believe these three , who have now been in prison for 13 years , to be innocent of the crime for which they stand convicted . |
| 9 | A growing number of people believe this may be more than a fantasy . |
| 10 | And at Sussex , there are quite a number of people doing these sorts of experiments , what , about six or eight different people doing experiments in low temperature physics ? |
| 11 | Large numbers of people deter some customers ( eg the elderly or frail ) |
| 12 | Which is why I think the government is authoritarian , why you have secret police and gulags and so on , because they ca n't afford to tolerate large numbers of people saying this is n't what the revolution was supposed to be about . |
| 13 | The home can , therefore , be seen as a potentially significant source of ontological security , even if large numbers of people finding such security in the same place at the same time can itself lead to much anxiety . |