Example sentences of "[num] people have [been] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign . |
| 2 | Five people have been saved from drowning after their cabin cruiser capsized . |
| 3 | Some 25,000 people have been relocated from 64 villages outside Cologne to allow lignite mining to take place . |
| 4 | Furthermore , pressed by urban problems and sometimes apparently with other motives , several countries , such as Brazil , Colombia , Indonesia ( where , since 1905 , at least 2.5 million people have been moved from crowded Java , Bali and Lombok , to the ‘ outer ’ islands — an official figure where two or three times this number may have emigrated unassisted ) and Peru are promoting transmigration schemes so that it is projected that the number of forest farmers could double or increase even more than that . |
| 5 | ‘ The war that has raged in Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past year has taken a staggering toll : thousands have been killed or imprisoned , thousands more are at risk due to hunger and exposure , and over two million people have been forced from their homes , ’ he said . |