Example sentences of "the [det] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the some people can actually have a reduction made of twenty percent instead . |
| 2 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 3 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |
| 4 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 5 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 6 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 7 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 8 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
| 9 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
| 10 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
| 11 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 12 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 13 | The few people I treasure were in touch and I told them exactly what was wrong . |
| 14 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
| 15 | The few people who still live on these remote islands practise traditional Kentish crafts , such as creative in-breeding , undisturbed by motor traffic and other aspects of mainland life . |
| 16 | And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates . |
| 17 | For the few people on low incomes who do have credit , paying it off tends to soak up more of their budget than for people with higher incomes . |
| 18 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
| 19 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 20 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 21 | Despite their differences and Leopold 's difficult and austere character , his father 's death robbed Wolfgang of a most loving and tender parent , and of one of the few people who genuinely appreciated and fully comprehended the nature of his genius . |
| 22 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 23 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
| 24 | At 82 , the few people one might wish to see are all dead . |
| 25 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 26 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
| 27 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 28 | The few people left that Intel Corp has n't non-disclosed about the P5 will be able to glean some details at next months Hot Chips Conference in California : the P5 will be previewed and presentations made on Alpha , a 200-MFLOPS PA-RISC , HyperSparc , the ARM 600 , something that looks like Sun 's Tsunami and LSI 's single-chip 33020 X terminal controller . |
| 29 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 30 | Great claims are made for the technique , by the few people who are selling services of this kind . |