Example sentences of "many people [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit . |
| 2 | Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can . |
| 3 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 4 | The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate . |
| 5 | Er I 've already had some promised but it depends on how many people we get there you see . |
| 6 | Well when you think how many people we have |
| 7 | Add up how many adult workers there are and how many people they have to support . |
| 8 | All these diets are low-calorie ones , and for many people they have been highly successful . |
| 9 | It is not for the Home Secretary , government or the House to lay down to the courts how many people they send to prison . |
| 10 | Everyone suffers from them — and for many people they mean days of agonising pain . |
| 11 | The research aims to demonstrate that often young people ‘ talk down ’ , unnecessarily , to many people they consider elderly . |
| 12 | But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding . |
| 13 | TERRORISTS who planted a 400lb bomb at a Glengormley hotel did n't care how many people they killed , local councillors have said . |
| 14 | how many people they 're gon na keep or not gon na keep so |
| 15 | I wonder how many people they have talking about dog crap . |
| 16 | He could lie and pretend all he liked , as so many people she had known had pretended , as even her Dad had only pretended to love her . |
| 17 | England had alerted her ; so many people she had met there affected kindness but so few had warmth . |
| 18 | Sunday lunch has a suitable sense of occasion about it and for many people it is the only time of the week when they can relax and enjoy a leisurely get-together with family or friends . |
| 19 | After every census , the bureau conducts its own internal estimate of how many people it missed : in 1980 it thought it had missed 1.4% of the population , including 5–6% of blacks ( and perhaps as many as 18% of black males ) . |
| 20 | For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system . |
| 21 | For many people it seems to mean freedom to do what someone else has done before with some success , and initially this seemed to be the best course to take . |
| 22 | Not for many people it is n't . |
| 23 | The excuse for the 1928 ‘ infirmary pie ’ was to raise £1,000 to endow in perpetuity a bed at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary , but to many people it was really a somewhat belated celebration of the end of the 1914–18 war . |
| 24 | The Super Seven is not by any stretch of the imagination a cruising car , in fact for many people it is downright impractical . |
| 25 | For many people it 's riskier than the next approach and there is no guarantee of results ; but you will certainly have made a powerful impression on others . |
| 26 | Surgery may have prolonged the careers of some Hollywood actresses but for many people it is not the panacea they may believe it is . |
| 27 | Even though companies ' actions are the result of a substantial contribution of views from many people it is surprising how often one can predict the competitive gambits from knowledge of the characteristics and prejudices of the leader . |
| 28 | The conventional image , still current in some quarters , of the rehoused poor ‘ putting coal in the bath ’ is very sour in St Ann 's , because for all too many people it might be nice to have the option of putting the coal they ca n't afford in the baths they have n't got . |
| 29 | For many people it is a matter of looking around for the car they want and then frantically trying to arrange the finance , whilst the ‘ offer ’ still holds . |
| 30 | Their hands were empty , and Alexei wondered how many people it took to move Artai from one room of the palace to another . |