Example sentences of "crowd of [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Ted Pearce has not ruled out a merger with the reformed Shots who have been drawing crowds of more than 2,000 to the Recreation Ground after their blistering start in the Diadora League Division Three . |
| 2 | Crowds of more than 700 filled the club at the weekends and under-eighteens had their own room , so bands usually played two sets a night . |
| 3 | Farnborough , who took West Ham to a reply in the FA Cup last year , are in desperate financial trouble with debts of £50,000 and crowds of less than 500 this season . |
| 4 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 5 | On April 8 a crowd of more than 7,000 people converged on the presidential palace to demand the dismissal of the government . |
| 6 | A crowd of more than 35,000 flocked to Leeds Road on the Wednesday afternoon and several workshops had to close down . |
| 7 | A crowd of more than 8,000 , Workington 's biggest for more than a decade , saw the Cumbrians produce a battling second-half performance . |
| 8 | And in front of a crowd of more than 100 cheering tourists , Sharon agreed to his proposal . |
| 9 | As he left the chapel a crowd of more than 100 onlookers burst into spontaneous applause . |
| 10 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 11 | A crowd of more than 10,000 ethnic Albanians gathered outside the provincial LC headquarters in the capital , Pristina , on Jan. 24 , and a representative of a new independent students ' group read out a list of demands . |
| 12 | Several hundred Albanians , watched by a crowd of more than 10,000 onlookers , on Jan. 18 packed into Tirana 's Etem Bey mosque , on the city 's central Skanderbeg Square , for Albania 's first legal Moslem religious service since religious practice had been banned in 1967 . |
| 13 | That 's out of a crowd of more than twenty thousand . |