Example sentences of "be dying at [art] rate of " in BNC.

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1 We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day .
2 Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling .
3 At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation .
4 The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation .
5 On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity .
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