Example sentences of "[num] people were still " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ipswich 12 people were still at home in the action sample , three of them with considerable support from the project . |
| 2 | About a dozen people were still in two hospitals last night . |
| 3 | The human rights organization Helsinki Watch announced on Jan. 23 that the conflict had claimed 10,000 lives in Croatia , and that 5,000 people were still unaccounted for . |
| 4 | On Sept. 27 the National Human Rights Monitoring Group was cited as saying that 1,200 detainees had been freed , in accordance with a High Committee of State ( HCS ) decision of Aug. 8 , but that 4,000 people were still held . |
| 5 | Condemnation from international human rights groups had forced the Prosecutor-General 's department to reveal that Munteanu was accused of leading demonstrators in attacks on the police headquarters , and that 185 people were still in detention . |
| 6 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 7 | According to a WHO report published on Oct. 16 , almost 3,000,000 people were still dying from tuberculosis every year . |
| 8 | The Sri Lankan government on April 1 issued a denial of claims that its navy had shot at two Indian fishing trawlers in the prawn-catching area off the north of the island on March 11 and 16 ; seven people were still missing after the latter incident . |