More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers, `` bookies '', loan `` sharks '', gangsters, `` thugs '' and `` finger men '' -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses, `` or else '' I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu.

More than 20 million people live on farms and they own a fourth of the nation's trucks, buy more gasoline than any other industry and provide a major market for home appliances, chemicals and other products.

More than 300 million people speak an Afroasiatic language.

More complex assistive technology devices have been developed over time, and as a result, sports for people with disabilities " have changed from being a clinical therapeutic tool to an increasingly competition-oriented activity ".

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

More than 30, 000 people were killed in the fighting from 1992 to 1994.

More primitive models hold quite a few people in exchange for producing considerable pollution, but later models are denser and cleaner.

More and more of the world's people live in coastal regions.

More recently several geneticists, including Lynn Jorde and Henry Harpending have proposed that the human race was reduced to approximately five to ten thousand people.

More than a thousand people who had sought refuge in the church died in the flames.

More recently, dietary habits have been influenced by the concerns that some people have about possible impacts on health or the environment from genetically modified food.

* 1377 – More than 2, 000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops ( Cesena Bloodbath ).

More controversially, some people define folk dancing as dancing for which there is no governing body or dancing for which there are no competitive or professional performances.

More than 16 million people are of foreign / immigrant descent ( first and second generation, including mixed heritage and ethnic German repatriates and their descendants ).

More than 1, 500 people were wounded and many people went missing or were detained.

More than three million people were either homeless or severely affected.

More generally, people often build houses out of the nearest available material, and often tradition and / or culture govern construction-materials, so whole towns, areas, counties or even states / countries may be built out of one main type of material.

More than 100 armed attacks on polling places took place, killing at least 44 people ( including nine suicide bombers ) across Iraq, including at least 20 in Baghdad.

* More people will die of AIDS in 2004 than in 1994.

* 1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.

More realistically, however, every organization must manage its work, people, processes, technology, etc.

* 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath

" More generally in eighteenth-century Great Britain, Cicero's name was a household word among educated people.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

More and more of the colonials were wearing their own hair and not using powder.

More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.

More than 11 thousand business establishments in the United States were based on cereals and oilseeds in 1954.

More than 1,000 were said to have been arrested -- 100 of them Roman Catholic priests.

More than the fans of Pagnol's old films and of their heroic star, the great Raimu, were looking askance at the project.

More traditional adobe roofs were often flatter than the familiar steeped roof as the native climate yielded more sun and heat than mass amounts of snow or rain that would find use in precipitous roofs.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

More fragments were recovered in 1994, amounting to 45 % of the total skeleton.

More Latins were brought to Rome as citizens and were settled at the foot of the Aventine near the Palatine Hill, by the temple of Murcia

More foods were now available: feral goats – introduced by earlier sailors – provided him with meat and milk and wild turnips, cabbage, and black pepper berries offered him variety and spice.

More controversially, officials of the Federal Reserve assisted in the negotiations that led to this bail-out, on the grounds that so many companies and deals were intertwined with LTCM that if LTCM actually failed, they would as well, causing a collapse in confidence in the economic system.

More recent methods of scholarship, such as textual criticism, have been influential in suggesting that John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos were three separate individuals.

More services for the public were introduced ; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition " Treasures of Tutankhamun " in 1972, attracting 1, 694, 117 visitors, the most successful in British history.

A film tie-in featuring artwork from the film and a cover version by Ennio Morricone was released in Europe, though the other tracks on the album were soundtracks from A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.

More general results from the study were that precipitation and water use lead to above-ground primary production, solar radiation and temperature lead to belowground primary production ( roots ), and temperature and water lead to cool and warm season growth habit.

More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba.

More than one-third of them died or left the service before they were disbanded along with the rest of the RIC in 1922, an extremely high wastage rate, and well over half received government pensions.

More than 40, 000 companies were registered in the Cayman Islands as of 2000, including almost 600 banks and trust companies, with banking assets exceeding $ 500 billion.

More members of the Chilean elite were becoming convinced of the necessity of full independence, regardless of who sat on the throne of Spain.