Assertion: town's population | /r/CapableOf | reach more than 40,000
Facets:
value: by 1900
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Crewe grew greatly after the Grand Junction Railway Company moved there in 1843; the two rural towns that became Crewe had a population of 500 in 1841 and the population had reached more than 40,000 by 1900.