Example sentences of "[num] people have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 24 the government disclosed that in the Tibesti region of northern Chad 49 people had been killed in various attacks on civilians since mid-August by forces loyal to former President Hissène Habré . |
| 2 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 3 | By mid-1992 more than 1,000,000 people had been killed in the fighting , while an estimated 2,000,000 people had been displaced . |
| 4 | Since it has been introduced 43 people have been cut off the dole and 21 continue to receive reduced rates of social security in the North of Ireland . |
| 5 | Up to the end of November this year , 367 people had been charged with terrorist offences , including 37 with murder and 75 with attempted murder . |
| 6 | A 14,000-km " unity march " — ekta yatra — launched by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) [ see p. 38682 ] , ended in Srinigar on Jan. 26 ( Republic Day ) with reports that at least 30 people had been killed in an upsurge of violence attributed to Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 7 | Speaking after a tour of Alexandra township , north-east of Johannesburg , where over 30 people had been killed and 2,600 made homeless in the three preceding weeks , the ANC president said that he would be placing this demand urgently before the government . |
| 8 | One member of the crowd said at least 30 people had been arrested . |
| 9 | An estimated 50,000 people had been released as a result . |
| 10 | The government version said that 12 people had been killed and more than 200 injured as a result of " general panic " after a grenade went off , and that 11 had died " on our side " . |
| 11 | In the second half of 1990 at least 300 people had been charged with offences against state security in the region , and 11 people had died from torture while under arrest . |
| 12 | Fighting was more protracted in Croatia , where some 300 people had been killed by mid-August . |
| 13 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 14 | The UN General Assembly subsequently passed a resolution condemning Sudan , following reports that at least 300 people had been executed in the southern town of Juba . |
| 15 | More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman 's death . |
| 16 | By June 23 a further 44 people had been killed . |
| 17 | The Interior Ministry announced on Nov. 12 that 44 people had been killed during the crackdown and a further 180 people remained missing . |
| 18 | The House will be interested to know that , in the six months since my hon. Friend last questioned me on the subject , there have been 992 call-outs from RAF Chivenor and 591 people have been assisted . |
| 19 | This attack , in which 10 people had been killed , was mounted by the Armed Islamic movement under Mourad Hanni , known as Mourad al-Afghani . |
| 20 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 21 | Nineteen people have been injured , six seriously in a coach crash on the M fifty in Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | Nineteen people have been injured , five of them seriously after a coach crashed down an embankment , bankment on the M fifty on the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire border ; the coach was carrying elderly passengers on an outing . |
| 23 | Disaster relief officials said that over the last three days another 12,000 people had been evacuated to join 45,000 already crammed into the centres after an eruption killed 75 people on 2 February . |
| 24 | Since the government 's offensive was launched on 19 August , more than 12,000 people have been detained and at least 1,000 luxury homes and farms seized . |
| 25 | More than 12,000 people have been treated in America and elsewhere and some have complained of glare , especially from car headlights when driving at night . |
| 26 | Red Cross officials are trying to confirm reports that 1,200 people had been massacred at a Serb detention camp at Lukavac . |
| 27 | A report by the international human rights organization Amnesty International , published in October 1989 , said that torture and executions were widespread in Iran and that at least 1,200 people had been executed by the authorities in 1988 . |
| 28 | At least 1,200 people have been killed in recent fighting . |
| 29 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people had been killed since the weekend . |
| 30 | Western human rights groups claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been executed by the authorities during the last six months of martial law , and many more were being held in detention . |