Example sentences of "million people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to the emigration of the people of East Germany to the West — there had been two million people removing in the ten years up to 1961 — a wall was constructed between that part of Berlin controlled by the Communists and the other parts which were controlled by the Federal republic with Britain , France and the United States of America . |
| 2 | Nearly three million people died in the Korean War . |
| 3 | The disintegration of the European empires after the last war was followed by 45 years of armed conflict in the ex-colonies , in which 20 million people died in the far east , in the Indian subcontinent , in the middle east , in Africa and even in the Caribbean . |
| 4 | More than 300 million people suffer from the parasitic infection filariasis , Cholera , yellow fever , sleeping sickness leishmaniasis and leprosy affect tens of millions of people in tropical regions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Between 1950 and 1970 some six million people moved from the central provinces and the frontier region with Portugal to the four major areas of industrial development in Spain . |
| 8 | But her desire to provide a period of stability for nearly one million people employed by the NHS is coupled with a fierce determination to maintain the momentum of reform , with the overwhelming majority of hospitals becoming self-governing trusts by the mid-1990s . |
| 9 | An estimated 2.5 million people come into the city every day , mostly by train . |
| 10 | The water supply of over a million people living in the area are is contaminated by a range of pollutants , including heavy metals , and nitrates at concentrations of up to 25 times the permitted EC limits . |
| 11 | Surely the world can not stand idly by and watch this country of eight million people go through the agony of war yet again ? |
| 12 | The report points out that 70 million people live in the banana-shaped industrial complex which stretches from Britain to Italy . |
| 13 | About 350 million people live in the Yangtze valley , and its thousands of kilometres of waterways are essential to commerce , industry , and fishing . |
| 14 | In normal times , nearly 9 million people live in the four provinces of northern Ethiopia : Gondar : Wollo : Tigre and Eritrea . |
| 15 | Two-thirds of adults use pubs , and one million people work in the drinks industry or licensed trade . |