because a lot of people work and not every place will give you time to get off to go to the polls
A lot of people can't get off work.
A lot of people take the day off.
She frowned at Jon.
A woman rides her bicycle across the crosswalk.
The town is high up on a cliff.
I believe they went back for a brief discussion on the sentence.
They were called Romans.
The people are picking tulips for spring harvest.