Example sentences of "[n mass] in the world [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the people in the world she least wanted to see , yet most wanted to see , Tyler had walked back into her life to turn it upside down . |
| 2 | When we use the words , ‘ brothers ’ and ‘ sisters ’ we usually mean the people in our immediate families , but it can also mean other people in the world who might be in need of our help . |
| 3 | There are two people in the world who know all that is known about Christabel LaMotte . |
| 4 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 5 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 6 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 7 | After all , he reflected , I am one of the few people in the world who is n't worth blackmailing . |
| 8 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 9 | There were certainly more people in the world who resembled the French , 88 per cent of whom in 1861 lived in the département of their birth — in the Lot département 97 per cent in the parish of their birth — than resembled more mobile and migratory populations . |
| 10 | You know the one — about there only being three people in the world who ever understood the damn thing in the first place ? |
| 11 | Head teacher Sheila Davies commented : ‘ As a church school we teach the children to appreciate what they have , and point out there are a lot of people in the world who are worse off . |