Example sentences of "people and [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 2 | Bombs exploded in Amritsar and Patiala on June 4 , killing eight people and injuring 35 others . |
| 3 | Unidentified gunmen attacked the demonstrators , killing 25 people and injuring 82 others . |
| 4 | Previous eruptions of the volcano had occurred in 1971 and 1973 causing the death of five people and affecting 35,000 hectares of land . |
| 5 | Three earthquakes struck Peru on April 5-6 , the severest of them ( measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale ) killing 35 people and injured 750 others in the northern jungle province of San Martín . |
| 6 | An example was ‘ Bloody Friday ’ , 21st July 1972 , when the Provisional IRA exploded twenty-two bombs in Belfast with slight or no warnings and killed 16 people and injured 120 others . |
| 7 | Identical circuitry was used in the 1982 Hyde Park bomb which killed eight people and injured fifty-three others . |
| 8 | US narcotics agents have arrested 14 people and seized 2.5 tons of cocaine and $2.75million ( £1.83million ) in drug profits during raids in California . |
| 9 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
| 10 | Since then Citigate has grown substantially , now producing a fee income in excess of £7m , a turnover of between £15m and £20m , employing around 160 people and serving 250 clients , ranging from the London Stock Exchange to Taunton Cider and Kentucky Fried Chicken . |
| 11 | An Israeli air strike on March 9 on Palestinian bases of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command , in northern Lebanon , killed four people and wounded eight others . |
| 12 | Police have now interviewed more than 600 people and taken 1,500 statements in the year-long probe . |
| 13 | AN ARTILLERY duel was fought between Israeli troops and guerrillas in southern Lebanon yesterday , killing two people and wounding two others . |
| 14 | A DRAMATIC mission to rescue desperate Bosnian Muslim civilians was suspended yesterday after Serb forces opened fire on unarmed United Nations helicopters , killing at least three people and wounding six others . |
| 15 | A bomb exploded in the railway station in Mandalay on Dec. 11 , killing two people and wounding 18 others . |
| 16 | On May 21 Israeli fighter aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions around Janta in the eastern Bekaa near the Syrian border , killing seven people and wounding 18 others . |
| 17 | But despite the breakthrough there is still a along way to go in combating meningitis , which affects more than 3,000 people and claims 300 lives every year . |
| 18 | The Restaurants & Leisure division of Whitbread plc employs approximately 40000 people and has five UK businesses , including the Thresher drinks retailing chain with 1660 shops nationwide , 250 Beefeater family restaurants , TGI Friday 's the American Bistro and 282 Pizza Hut restaurants . |
| 19 | They employ 100 people and have two sites in the town of Sudbury which process and weave silks into the finest tie fabric . |