Example sentences of "[n mass] die [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken out by the vendor for the benefit of the purchaser , Luck Penny cover compensates the buyer if any of the insured sheep die within the selected cover period — usually three months . |
| 2 | I just hope those fish died from the oil , not some other weird substance they 're messing with here , she thought . |
| 3 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 4 | The number of people who have died on our streets is equivalent to a hundred thousand people dying in the streets of Britain , if that were happening , then the House of Commons would be packed to the doors everyday , until they got it sorted out . |
| 5 | We have many more people dying in the winter here than in colder countries such as Sweden or Canada . ’ |
| 6 | The first reports of people dying from the mystery disease later identified as AIDS . |
| 7 | Every year in Britain about 5,000 people die on the roads . |
| 8 | Seventy people die on the spot , and the town , far from celebrating the ark 's return , finds itself in mourning . |
| 9 | About 3,500 cases of malignant melanoma ( cancerous moles ) are diagnosed in Britain every year — and about 800 people die of the disease . |
| 10 | At the other extreme , many old people die during the heat waves that occur in very hot countries such as Greece . |
| 11 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 12 | A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks . |
| 13 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |
| 14 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 15 | Roads toll Five people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 16 | The facts of the war are simple : about a dozen people died during the Serbo-Croat conflict in Croatia in 1990-91 . |
| 17 | St Bartholomew 's hospital surgical manager Ian Johnson said two people died at the scene of the blast . |
| 18 | It was almost as if the Israelis were saying ‘ if you think the Palestinians are suffering , see how more than six million of our people died at the hands of the Nazis ’ . |
| 19 | The infamous Chilean case , in May 1960 , began with an earthquake deep in the subduction zone between the Nazca and the South American Plates : scores of people died near the town of Puerto Montt . |
| 20 | Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy . |
| 21 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , he had ‘ reliable and authenticated ’ information that more than 1,000 and possibly more than 2,000 people died in the attack . |
| 22 | Nearly three million people died in the Korean War . |
| 23 | A total of 440 people died in the two aircraft bombings . |
| 24 | In 1970 , for example , more than 200 000 people died in the cyclone and flooding of Bangladesh and in 1979 the hurricanes David and Frederick caused more than $3bn damage in the USA . |
| 25 | Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 27 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 28 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 29 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 30 | More than ten thousand people died in the town . |