Example sentences of "kill each year " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example injured and dying animals are not included in the limit the US tuna boats are officially allowed to kill each year . |
| 2 | By 1975 , over 100 tonnes of porpoise meat was being sold in Peruvian fish markets , amounting to at least 2000 animals killed each year . |
| 3 | Nobody suspected that a significant proportion of the small population was being caught and killed each year in fishing nets . |
| 4 | In Greenland alone , 1000–3000 harbour porpoises are killed each year , along with 300–600 belugas ( white whales ) and 400–500 narwhals and some pilot whales . |
| 5 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 6 | Although the remoteness of the region makes accurate information hard to come by , in 1979 , even before the main expansion of the industry , an estimated 4100 dolphins and porpoises were being killed each year for bait . |
| 7 | In 1985 , a report to the IWC Scientific Committee revealed that more than 40,000 dolphins were being killed each year as a result of incidental catches in set-nets around Sri Lankan coasts . |
| 8 | The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society estimate that hundreds of thousands of porpoises , dolphins and other small cetaceans are killed each year . |
| 9 | Nearly 20,000 small cetaceans are killed annually just for sport and in the tuna industry in the Eastern Pacific around 130,000 dolphins are killed each year , the helpless victims of fish nets . |
| 10 | Many millions are killed each year as they cross the countries bordering the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | The Global War Against Small Cetaceans estimates that 500,000 dolphins are killed each year . |