Example sentences of "[num] people were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the same period over 303,200 people were admitted to the party , which had some 2,155,000 members . |
| 2 | More than 227 people were injured in the disaster along the Central American state 's Pacific border . |
| 3 | The bodies of at least 30 people were found in the streets , an army officer said . |
| 4 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 5 | According to diplomatic sources up to 300 people were killed in the violence . |
| 6 | A total of 47 people were killed in the United Kingdom when hurricane-force winds of over 100 mph swept through north-western Europe on Jan. 25 . |
| 7 | In Mozambique in 1990 250,000 people were driven off the land by clashes between government and rebel forces . |
| 8 | There was little election-related violence during the June polling to compare with that of May 20 , when over 100 people were killed throughout the country . |
| 9 | Well over 100 people were employed in the house and on the estate . |
| 10 | Six people were named in the CBI 's FIR , including Shivinder Singh Sidhu , a former Additional Secretary in the Defence Ministry who was currently Secretary-General of the International Civil Aviation Organization , and G. P. Hinduja , a London-based Indian industrialist who was also deeply implicated in the Bofors affair [ for January developments in which see p. 37184 ] . |
| 11 | Six people were arrested at the site . |
| 12 | A spokesman for Durham Constabulary said three people were arrested following the incident and all have been released , one of them on police bail . |
| 13 | It said 21 people were killed in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning . |
| 14 | In its first six months of operation , over 1600 people were accepted into the programme , resulting in over 250 new businesses starting to date . |
| 15 | A hundred thousand people were killed from the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — many of the casualties were children . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Fourteen people were killed in the demonstration for the unemployed . |
| 18 | Around 100,000 people were evacuated from the Ukraine and Byelorussia immediately after the disaster , but Byelorussian activists say this was not nearly enough . |
| 19 | It estimates approximately 23,400 people were infected with the Aids virus , HIV , in England and Wales at the end of 1991 the last year full figures are available . |
| 20 | Seventy people were employed in the various stages of the manufacture of the miniature . |
| 21 | Only seventy people were known to the Inland Revenue to keep more than £6,000 net . |
| 22 | ( A total of 79 people were killed during the 28 years of the wall 's existence , the last in February 1989 ; there were regularly about two escape attempts a week . ) |
| 23 | ( The first round of the " large " privatization , in which 8,500,000 people were involved through the use of special vouchers , had begun only three weeks before the election " see p. 38921 . ) |
| 24 | 32 people were arrested at the party site , which had been occupied by a group of travellers . |
| 25 | ELEVEN people were treated for the effects of fumes after a truckload of chemicals caught fire yesterday at the M62-A1 junction in West Yorks . |
| 26 | More than 50 people were injured in the terrorist attack on the town . |
| 27 | More than 50 people were injured in the terrorist attack . |
| 28 | Portuguese Radio International reported on April 15 that the inquiry report was identical to the preliminary report issued in December 1991 , which concluded that 50 people were killed in the incident and that troops had reacted to the demonstration with excessive force [ see p. 38677 ] . |
| 29 | About 50 people were wounded in the attack . |
| 30 | 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 . |