Example sentences of "[n mass] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |
| 2 | About 20% live in the country , or rural areas , but less than 2% actually make a living by farming . |
| 3 | Luminous fish lived in the salt water . |
| 4 | And just because the fish lives in the water with it , does not mean that it is going to eat it — it would be like you eating mouldy food . |
| 5 | Fish living on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours . |
| 6 | There are two very different kinds of flat fish living on the sea bottom , and they have evolved their flatness in quite different ways . |
| 7 | This is particularly important when Catfish are housed in the aquarium because if the substrate has stagnated the fish living on the substrate are the first to suffer . |
| 8 | Population though , sixty one percent live in the North , thirty eight percent live in the south . |
| 9 | Population though , sixty one percent live in the North , thirty eight percent live in the south . |
| 10 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 11 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 12 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 13 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 14 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 15 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 16 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 17 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 18 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 19 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 20 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 21 | How many people lived in the house ? |
| 22 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 23 | The same applies with even greater reason to the domicile requirement , which , according to the United Kingdom , is a more stringent requirement than mere residence and means living in the member state with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home . |
| 24 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 25 | So , ’ he continued , ‘ if you had a tall skyscraper , say , with people living at the top , they will think everything at the bottom has shrunk — been squashed down — compared to normal . ’ |
| 26 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 27 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 28 | Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano . |
| 29 | This was the customary right to seize wrecked ships and their cargoes enjoyed by people living on the coast and which was believed to lead to the abuse of " wrecking " . |
| 30 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |