Example sentences of "about [num] [adj] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerable cities , in which about 500 million people live , include Alexandria , Bangkok , Hamburg , Leningrad , London , New Orleans , Shanghai and Venice . |
| 2 | From about 75 more people have some level of disability than do not . |
| 3 | In round figures , about 26 million people emigrated from Europe between 1880 and 1910 . |
| 4 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 5 | About 350 million people live in the Yangtze valley , and its thousands of kilometres of waterways are essential to commerce , industry , and fishing . |
| 6 | About three million people thronged the airport and the street of Teheran to greet Khomeini when he flew home on 1 February 1979 . |
| 7 | On his side of the Thames , by the parkland and shrubberies of Wandsworth Common , a crowd of about three hundred people had gathered . |
| 8 | Yes , there were about three different people wanted company suggestion about that . |
| 9 | About 1.1 million people have registered with the share information office and only 700,000 with the share shops . |
| 10 | About 1,500 young people attended the event . |
| 11 | About sixty million people received land through redistribution . |
| 12 | About sixty thousand people vanish every year , and most of them turn up undamaged . |
| 13 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 14 | That is the large reason why she is there , with about 25 other people waiting quietly to one side of the altar in the church which has become the place in the city where freedom most nearly is . |
| 15 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 16 | E. About 40 000 people live and work in the area of the Peak District National Park . |
| 17 | It says that about 98,000 young people go missing annually , sometimes only for a short period . |
| 18 | In each of these mining ‘ towns ’ about two thousand people live and work . |
| 19 | and we 're right on the main road and I reckon about two hundred people walked past the garden today watching us . |