Example sentences of "[n mass] take to the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 2 | During the autumn of that year , more than five million people took to the streets of Europe in support of the cause of European disarmament . |
| 3 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
| 4 | I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Baku on Jan. 4 to demonstrate solidarity with those attacking the border . |
| 6 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 7 | Ershad 's resignation announcement was greeted with scenes of wild jubilation in Dhaka where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in celebration . |
| 8 | In particular after the air raid on the Baghdad bunker , days of national mourning were declared in Algeria , Mauritania and Tunisia and young people took to the streets upon hearing the announcement of the raid . |
| 9 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 10 | The protesters , also angered by cheap imports from eastern Europe and South America , ransacked sheds owned by a merchant they said dealt in British fish and hundreds of people took to the streets of Concarneau and neighbouring ports to show their support . |
| 11 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 12 | There were reports about groups of ordinary people taking to the streets , holding hands , approaching armoured carriers and calling for peace . |
| 13 | People take to the streets to demand a change in the rigid political system . |
| 14 | Mr Wang was a top student leader of the 1989 demonstrations that saw more than a million people take to the streets calling for more democracy and demanding the end of corruption and special privileges for officials . |