Example sentences of "[n mass] were [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , it can be calculated from the figures that in 1951–52 over 72% of all WEA ‘ centres ’ in the Eastern District were in places with populations of less than 5,000 ; only 10% were in places with over 20,000 people . |
| 2 | The main data were on computer . |
| 3 | The following day , Iranian aircraft were over Baghdad . |
| 4 | Major giants in the Ulster economy like Shorts Aircraft were in difficulties , while the Harland and Woolf shipyards were making heavy losses . |
| 5 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 6 | Once his infantry were in position , Springfield had turned his attention to his motorised troops . |
| 7 | They were offered the three alternative thresholds taken from the Institute 's recent consultative document and only 18% opted for the VAT registration limit ( turnover £36,600 ) ; 47% were in favour of the VAT cash accounting limit , and 35% opted for the EC small companies definition . |
| 8 | On April 27th only 20% opposed it and 39% were for signing . |
| 9 | The French had not disappeared , and he had not imagined them.They were in Frasnes . |
| 10 | The subsidy rolls show much the same profile on the Sussex Downs and coastal plain , though , with trifling exceptions , assessments below £1 were not made , and most below £2 were on wages . |
| 11 | Furthermore 65% of this year 's artists were London based , whereas only 6% were from East Anglia . |
| 12 | Of these , 85% were of Maori , Pacific Island , or Indian origin : these are ethnic groups with a high prevalence of non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 13 | Of the 32 bishops responding , 75pc were in favour and of the 196 clergy , 68pc were in favour . |
| 14 | Other valuable people were beyond saving , however , as the party was purged of the so-called ‘ capitalist roaders ’ during the Cultural Revolution . |
| 15 | They could not say how many people were on board . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher saw this as the tragic side of a prosperous Britain , pointing out on the BBC news on 20 August 1989 when visiting the wreck , that people had more money nowadays , and seemed to be going out and enjoying themselves , which was why so many people were on board . |
| 17 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |
| 18 | In 1979 , when we came to office , only 6,000 young people were on training programmes sponsored by the then Labour Government . |
| 19 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 20 | Various crafts , by local people were on display , quilting , wood carving , bee keeping , sewing , knitting , picture embroidery . |
| 21 | Various crafts , by local people were on display , quilting , wood carving , bee keeping , sewing , knitting , picture embroidery . |
| 22 | The questions had , for the most part , been slanted to the factual points about where people were on Friday night and Saturday afternoon . |
| 23 | In 1769 1,375 people were at work on it , many of them prisoners at forced labour . |
| 24 | In the years 1815–27 , when he was hated by the young Romantic poets for his apostasy , it is only fair to point out that many quite reasonable people were at panic stations because of incipient popular unrest . |
| 25 | There were no sounds from the lower flats , no television or music to assure her that people were at hand . |
| 26 | Earlier this year the World Food Programme was reckoning that some 5m people were at risk of famine in the north of the country ; if so , some 1.2m tonnes of grain would be needed to feed them , of which a bit over half has been pledged by donors . |
| 27 | The Prince of Wales yesterday called for £1m aid for the victims of Saddam Hussein 's regime in south eastern Iraq and warned that half a million people were at risk of genocide . |
| 28 | Needless to say , the condolences of the British monarch , government and people to the President and to the American people were without limit of sincerity or depth , and a search of unexampled vigour was now in progress to identify , find and arrest the culprits . |
| 29 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 30 | On Sept. 7 the army announced that a total of 186 people were under arrest . |