Example sentences of "[num] [adj] people [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some 10,000 local people turned out for Bordallo 's funeral .
2 Twenty thousand people camped out on common land for a music festival .
3 Despite the rain the queue went on and on and on.Over eight hundred people turned out in Oxford to see the blockbuster everyone 's talking about .
4 Despite the rain the queue went on and on and on.Over eight hundred people turned out in Oxford to see the blockbuster everyone 's talking about .
5 EastEnders won the biggest audience of the year when 24.3 million people tuned in on January 2 to witness the anguish of Mark , who has the Aids virus .
6 Yes I 've had one or two upset people go out of the door I must admit .
7 there have to be questions to answer , there have been four hundred people falling out of trains since 1979 , there must be a question to answer
8 There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee .
9 One in four young people goes on to higher education ; at the beginning of the 1980s , it was only one in eight .
10 Shelter estimated that 25,000 to 40,000 young people slept out in the open in Central London in 1987 .
11 Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them .
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