We are seven people. (Incorrect) vs There are seven of us. (Correct)

The correct phrase is 'there are seven of us.' The incorrect phrase 'we are seven people' is not commonly used in English. The correct phrase 'there are seven of us' is the appropriate way to express the number of people in a group.

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We are seven people. (Incorrect)

This phrase is incorrect and not commonly used in English.

The phrase 'we are seven people' is not a standard way to express the number of people in a group.

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A week before payday, here we are seven people splitting a portion not big enough for two.
There are seven people in a three-bedroom house, and you're the only one I like.
In my lifetime, I have killed seven people.
According to the information board was the bodies of seven people.
You forgot to tell you that there were seven people.
I was at Stuart's the night you took down seven people.
When I saw him, he had already murdered seven people.
We are seven billion human beings.
So, on the fourth day of your investigation, you were still concentrating on at least seven people.
I've never been in a cab with less than seven people.
A woman standing outside told me that the girl who lived there blew up a building, killed seven people.
There were seven cages for seven people.
Kashima Yuki, the accused you have willfully undertaken a series of assassinations murdering a total of thirty-seven people.
Balboa County Sheriff Don Lamb questions baseball legend Terrence Cook in connection with the Neptune High bus crash that claimed the lives of seven people.
The political vision of a terrorist organization is decided by the leadership, which, generally, is never more than five to seven people.
Mr President, you will be aware of the great sense of shock at the fatal rail accident which took place last Friday at Potters Bar station in Hertfordshire, claiming the lives of seven people and injuring some 70 people.
If this is indeed the case, we need a fundamental review of what we are publishing and how we are communicating with the people.
Unlike Scabbit, we are not interested in defaming innocent people.
Because today we are hunting down terrorists who killed 12 people.
We are not the same people.

There are seven of us. (Correct)

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

The phrase 'there are seven of us' is the appropriate way to indicate the number of people in a group.

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There are six sides to this die and seven of us.
It is perhaps less a question of how to function than of what it is that we want to do together when there are sixteen or twenty-seven of us.
Pick one of us. (SCOFFS) No.
There are only seven of us.
Frontal assault used to be a little more effective with seven of us.
It'll just be the... Seven of us.
Three ration cards among the seven of us.
And our family is more than the seven of us.
There are people here who take advantage of us.
And there are many of us.
What's happening is every day there are more of them and less of us.
There are two helicopters, big enough to take all of us.
Six rounds, there are five of us.
There are big changes ahead of us.
No, there are just the three of us.
And especially when there are two of us.
There are no explanations or apologies needed for either one of us.
- There are parts for both of us.
The current events there are of deep concern to all of us.
Of new water, and open it in front of us. (quietly):

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We are seven people. (Incorrect) vs There are seven of us. (Correct)