Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 2 | The average reading speed at which comprehension is possible varies from 200–400 words per minute — with the majority of people sticking around the 200 word mark . |
| 3 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 4 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 7 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 8 | He caricatures a host of little people shaped by the 1980s , from hillbillies-turned-entrepreneurs to fund-raisers who have learnt to make money out of charity . |
| 9 | Attracted by newspaper publicity ( the company did not bother to advertise ) 3000 people applied for the 20 jobs that were available . |
| 10 | The church cites the bicultural education campaign as the fulfilment of a promise to the Maori people made by the 1990 General Assembly ( the Treaty of Waitangi ) . |
| 11 | And there 's no difference in the circumstances of the people supplied by the two companies … each company supplies rich and poor alike . |
| 12 | Which is why people delve into the two system start-up files and edit commands out . |
| 13 | All this must be done without delay or argument because the safety of all those people flying in the 521 other Boeing 707/300 aircraft could be at stake . |
| 14 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 15 | Family size at longer durations of marriage has been rather stable in recent years ; the similarity of family building of people born in the 1960s to that of the 1920s does not imply much reduction in family size . |
| 16 | The moral decline which older people detected in the 1920s was blamed by some on the new mass entertainment , especially on the " movies " . |
| 17 | Due to the emigration of the people of East Germany to the West — there had been two million people removing in the ten years up to 1961 — a wall was constructed between that part of Berlin controlled by the Communists and the other parts which were controlled by the Federal republic with Britain , France and the United States of America . |
| 18 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 19 | Until Bellgrove , where two people died in the 1989 tragedy , single-lead junctions had an enviable safety record , Robin Seymour , the then Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways , said . |
| 20 | A total of 440 people died in the two aircraft bombings . |
| 21 | Only one person remarkably said that Oxford United would win by one goal to nil , I think loads of people go for the three ones or the four ones or things like that . |
| 22 | They want me to walk out in Watts , like black people did in the '60s , and say ‘ Cool it , baby , cool it . ' |
| 23 | Nine minutes past six , and it 's the morning of Friday , December the tenth , if you 've just joined us , as many people do after the six o'clock news , or even before the six o'clock news , welcome along to the programme . |
| 24 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 25 | In normal times , nearly 9 million people live in the four provinces of northern Ethiopia : Gondar : Wollo : Tigre and Eritrea . |
| 26 | Which three people said after the 1983 general election : |
| 27 | This was the first fall since 1973 and was due predominantly to reductions in the numbers of remand prisoners , due to the success of the probation service 's bail information schemes , and sentenced young offenders , partly due to the stricter criteria for custodial sentences for young people required by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act , and partly to the drawing up and implementation of ‘ action plans ’ for community plans by the probation service . |