Example sentences of "people died [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 2 | A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks . |
| 3 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |
| 4 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The facts of the war are simple : about a dozen people died during the Serbo-Croat conflict in Croatia in 1990-91 . |
| 7 | St Bartholomew 's hospital surgical manager Ian Johnson said two people died at the scene of the blast . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nearly three million people died in the Korean War . |
| 13 | A total of 440 people died in the two aircraft bombings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 19 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 20 | More than ten thousand people died in the town . |
| 21 | The disintegration of the European empires after the last war was followed by 45 years of armed conflict in the ex-colonies , in which 20 million people died in the far east , in the Indian subcontinent , in the middle east , in Africa and even in the Caribbean . |
| 22 | At least 159 people died in the worst ferry disaster in Scandinavian history when the 10,500-ton Danish-operated Scandinavian Star caught fire in the North Sea on the night of April 7 . |
| 23 | Following violence between ANC and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) militants in the township of Bekkersdal , west of Johannesburg , where at least 11 people died in the first week of February , there was a joint peace appeal by the four main black political organisations . |
| 24 | There was extensive damage in the regional capital , Moyobamba , 644 km north of Lima , where an earthquake had killed over 100 people the previous year [ see p. 37474 ] ; 20 people died in the village of Nueva Cajamarca alone . |
| 25 | As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting . |
| 26 | Until Bellgrove , where two people died in the 1989 tragedy , single-lead junctions had an enviable safety record , Robin Seymour , the then Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways , said . |
| 27 | Seven people died in the attack on the Rising Sun at Greysteel . |