Example sentences of "people died in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nearly three million people died in the Korean War . |
| 4 | A total of 440 people died in the two aircraft bombings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 10 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 11 | More than ten thousand people died in the town . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Seven people died in the attack on the Rising Sun at Greysteel . |