Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] were [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six salmon were reported from the River Moy for the week while both the Druncliffe River and the Ballisodare River each produced two salmon to rod and line . |
| 2 | A hundred thousand people were killed from the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — many of the casualties were children . |
| 3 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 4 | Around 100,000 people were evacuated from the Ukraine and Byelorussia immediately after the disaster , but Byelorussian activists say this was not nearly enough . |
| 5 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |
| 6 | Last year over half a million sheep were exported from the UK for death in foreign abbatoirs and the numbers are set to increase . |
| 7 | Although more than 450 people were moved from the hotel and up to 50 neighbouring homes were damaged , no-one was seriously injured . |