The number of people invited __________ fifty, but a number of them __________ absent for different reasons.
At least 203 miners were killed, 22 _______ and 13 _______ in the coal mine gas explosion.
Yesterday he had an accident and his car was ______. It needs repairing.
—What a noise? I can hardly stand it. —It ______ as if they are having a party next door.
The article discusses the ______ which led up to the breaking out of the war.
Hearing the news, she ______.