Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• [2] The number of people in the family/household and the size of the community ( as measured by the number of people) are all taken into account when ...
• Jan 10, 2015 ... The number of properties sold in Grand Junction is on the rise, and so is the number of people are getting approved for home loans. Realtor's ...
• Aug 9, 2013 ... Siddharth. Its 'percentage of people who receive help' when the number of people are around buddy. Sharath. Super post! Miriam Breslauer.
• Decide the number of people are staying in your room. Just a note, the accommodation portion of the package price stays the same for up to four people sharing ...

• Oct 30, 2008 ... But the verb following "The number of people..." is singular because we're not referring to the people themselves, just that actual number of ...
• or in cases where the number of people is so large as to make them essentially uncountable, and I remain confident that even if there are millions or billions of ...
• Oct 7, 2014 ... ... of mobile devices at 7.22 billion whilst the US Census Bureau says the number of people is still somewhere between 7.19 and 7.2 billion.
• Dear members, We say : a) a small number of people are here b) the number of people is... Is it the same thing with the word "majority"?