Example sentences of "twenty million people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty million people took overseas holidays in 1986 , many in the Americas . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom , almost one-third of the population lives alone — that is around twenty million people — hardly a minority group . |
| 3 | Over the next few years , the cycle was completely reversed , and twenty million people died . |
| 4 | When Grace Archer died on BBC radio in 1955 , some twenty million people , it is said — perhaps half the adult nation — tuned in to hear , though by the 1980s television had reduced the audience for radio soap to a mere three million . |
| 5 | It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million . |
| 6 | Worldwide we provide services to twenty million people . |
| 7 | To supply the necessary manpower , some twenty million people have had to migrate and to learn thousands of new skills , from simple literacy , to genetic engineering or industrial management , working outside their homes . |
| 8 | In just over an hour 's time up to twenty million people are expected to be watching one television programme — the final episode of Inspector Morse . |