Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 2 | In St Louis , we were booked in a 11,000 seater hall and I think 180 or so people came . |
| 3 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 4 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 5 | Employees and their families were among the 100 or so people who joined a convoy of 25 four-wheel drive vehicles in order to hit the heights . |
| 6 | It was also agreed that the 100 or so people from each country involved in the exchange should be accompanied by 70 journalists and a 70-member art troupe from each side . |
| 7 | Because it is , it is en it is encouraging people to become rich and basically people want to become rich . |
| 8 | In 1652 Dugdale described fenmen as a ‘ lazy and beggarly people ’ . |
| 9 | Of the 600 or so people who attended the sale , roughly 10% were non Indian . |
| 10 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 11 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 12 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |
| 13 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 14 | Beneath her feet large paving slabs formed a diamond pattern , while above her head stiff-framed sun umbrellas cast their shadows over half a dozen or so people enjoying the quiet scene . |
| 15 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 16 | A relatively small number of people , about 180 to 200 , are admitted or discharged each year , compared with the 200,000 or so people admitted to ordinary Health Service psychiatric units . |
| 17 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 18 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 19 | Apparently as you know I mean biblical criticism is a very and well people have devoted their whole lives to it , but apparently there is a , a school o of , quite a large school I think o of biblical critical that claims that there are actually two Moses and not one . |
| 20 | The C65 really does sound brill and even people that down Commodore reckon it sounds pretty nifty . |
| 21 | As a result , Dave Phillips , Stan Stanners and Cheese are off Foundation , and Todd Swank himself is the only vert skater left : ultimately nine or so people [ who rode vert ] got chucked off . |
| 22 | There are a lot of people out there who are historians who would like to it 's very successful and sometimes people do n't like success . |
| 23 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |
| 24 | While white society engulfed the Christian Nez Perce , the 200 or so people of Joseph 's Wellamotkin band remained aloof in the Wallowa valley . |
| 25 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 26 | The 60,000 or so people living in Sussex in the sixteenth century had become 160,000 by 1801 and 260,000 by 1831 . |
| 27 | There may be a million or so people in the land who have the capacity to turn their hands to anything that 's going without feeling frustrated , or rebellious , or losing self-respect . |
| 28 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
| 29 | And more : the political bureaucracy , the ‘ Nomenklatura ’ as Voslensky calls the three million or so people he numbers in the Soviet ruling class has the most powerful reason of self-interest for opposing ‘ revisionism ’ . |
| 30 | In fact , the biggest section of people involved in the social security system are ordinary working people — the 20 million or so people who contribute every week to the national insurance fund , those mugs who pay in every week in the mistaken belief that at the end of their working days , or if a crisis should arise , they will have benefits to fall back on when times get tough . |