How do I stop iPhoto storing facial recognition repeats?

iPhoto is full of individual faces. It makes it almost impossible to sort the original pics. How do I stop this from happening?

They are in iPhoto. Problem seems to be that iPhoto creates thumbnails and then produces up to six duplicate face recognition thumbnails from the main photo AND the thumbnails of EVERY face, possible face, anything that might be a face, any object that should be a face (in iPhoto's opinion) and a lot of things that could not possibly be a face!
Of the (supposed) 15,000+ photos in the file, (not counting the 45,000+ in the Trash that I can't empty) at least 60% are repeats and duplicates.
I'm trying a few fixes suggested on "Empty iPhoto trash ??" - maybe tomorrow. It's 1.30am and I'm going to bed. 

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