Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Second World War ethnic Japanese were barred from applying for US citizenship ; in the months following Pearl Harbour 110,000 people were described in a State Department report as comprising a ‘ generally suspect ethnic group ’ and forcibly relocated from west coast communities to internment camps in the remote deserts of California , Arizona and Colorado , where most remained until the closing months of the war . |
| 2 | An ex-prisoner said 1,350 people were murdered in a month at Brcko in northern Bosnia . |
| 3 | During the same period over 303,200 people were admitted to the party , which had some 2,155,000 members . |
| 4 | More than 227 people were injured in the disaster along the Central American state 's Pacific border . |
| 5 | The bodies of at least 30 people were found in the streets , an army officer said . |
| 6 | The re-routing of the 126 service follows repeated pleas from the company for youngsters to stop hurling the stones Hostel blaze : Up to 30 people were evacuated from a DSS hostel in Sunderland after a fire in a bedroom . |
| 7 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 8 | According to diplomatic sources up to 300 people were killed in the violence . |
| 9 | A group of 700 people were arrested during a demonstration on Aug. 4 in Doula . |
| 10 | Female Wister rats ( Charles Rivers , UK , Ltd ) weighing 100–150 g were housed in the Biomedical Services Unit ( University of Birmingham ) with a 12 hour regular light-dark cycle . |
| 11 | THE OWNER of two apartment blocks in Calcutta , where at least 47 people were killed in a huge explosion in the early hours of yesterday , has been arrested . |
| 12 | A total of 47 people were killed in the United Kingdom when hurricane-force winds of over 100 mph swept through north-western Europe on Jan. 25 . |
| 13 | In Mozambique in 1990 250,000 people were driven off the land by clashes between government and rebel forces . |
| 14 | There was little election-related violence during the June polling to compare with that of May 20 , when over 100 people were killed throughout the country . |
| 15 | Well over 100 people were employed in the house and on the estate . |
| 16 | A LORRY driver was killed and six people were injured in a pile-up last night . |
| 17 | Six people were named in the CBI 's FIR , including Shivinder Singh Sidhu , a former Additional Secretary in the Defence Ministry who was currently Secretary-General of the International Civil Aviation Organization , and G. P. Hinduja , a London-based Indian industrialist who was also deeply implicated in the Bofors affair [ for January developments in which see p. 37184 ] . |
| 18 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 19 | Six people were arrested at the site . |
| 20 | Six salmon were reported from the River Moy for the week while both the Druncliffe River and the Ballisodare River each produced two salmon to rod and line . |
| 21 | A further 141 aircraft were destroyed by the allies either in the air or on the ground . |
| 22 | Tension rose in the republic when a dozen people were injured in a bomb attack on a Croatian cultural centre at Odzak on Feb.24 . |
| 23 | As isolated assassinations of the police and security forces continued in Algiers and elsewhere , three people were killed by a bomb which exploded at Constantine university on May 6 . |
| 24 | Three people were injured in a car crash at a North York Moors beauty spot . |
| 25 | Three people were injured in a car crash at a North York Moors beauty spot . |
| 26 | Three people were picnicking by the pond : a young man , a woman and a little girl . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Durham Constabulary said three people were arrested following the incident and all have been released , one of them on police bail . |
| 28 | Detective Superintendent Owen Taylor , who is leading the inquiry team , said yesterday that three people were spotted in an E-registration , black Nissan Micra car , near allotments close to the barracks at 8.15pm on 21 September , which was 12 hours before the bombing in which 10 bandsmen died . |
| 29 | THREE people were rescued from a yacht which got into difficulties in heavy seas off Bardsey Island over the weekend . |
| 30 | At Clapham on 12 December 1988 , 35 people were killed in a triple train crash . |