Example sentences of "of [adj] people [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millions of old people joined the Townsend Clubs that sprang up across the nation . |
| 2 | But the presence of Gladis Villalobos and other parents of disappeared people ensured the tragic reality was not forgotten . |
| 3 | The first reaction to the gold prospecting came when a group of concerned people formed the group Mining Awareness following press reports in March 1988 of gold finds in Conamara and Mayo . |
| 4 | Even so , her own assessment of the needs of young people confirmed the general impression of a positive emphasis in the interwar years . |
| 5 | Longstanding racial tensions and complaints of persistent police harassment of young people underlay the incidents . |
| 6 | A vast number of local people performed the menial tasks ; people of mixed race found jobs most appropriate to their status as buffers between the white managerial class and the mass of indigenous employees . |
| 7 | A frenzied throng of waving people barred the attempts of Drew , on the shoulders of four of his largest supporters , to advance . |