Example sentences of "[n mass] were killed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of these small fish were killed for the pearl trade . |
| 2 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 3 | However , eighteen people were killed during the year . |
| 4 | ( A total of 79 people were killed during the 28 years of the wall 's existence , the last in February 1989 ; there were regularly about two escape attempts a week . ) |
| 5 | Early reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people were killed during the invasion , including the Amir 's half-brother , Shaikh Fahd al-Ahmad al Sabah . |
| 6 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 7 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 8 | To this day no one has accurately computed how many millions of people were killed under the rule of Lenin and Stalin . |
| 9 | It said 21 people were killed in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning . |
| 10 | East Germany , together with Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria , condoned the Peking government 's actions in June , when hundreds of people were killed in the crushing of the pro-democracy movement . |
| 11 | Around 200 people were killed in the six weeks of election campaigning , and nearly 200 on the first day of voting . |
| 12 | Fourteen people were killed in the demonstration for the unemployed . |
| 13 | Between 14 and 16 July twenty-two people were killed in the battles between blacks , the police , and the National Guard . |
| 14 | A total of 47 people were killed in the United Kingdom when hurricane-force winds of over 100 mph swept through north-western Europe on Jan. 25 . |
| 15 | At least 20 people were killed in the following two days as the Group of 12 refused to call off the general strike unless Avril left the country . |
| 16 | A further seven people were killed in the province shortly afterwards . |
| 17 | Between Aug. 9 and 13 , 24 people were killed in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg after Inkatha supporters arrived , armed with spears and clubs , to take part in what was billed as a non-political clean-up operation to remove rubbish from the township . |
| 18 | In the worst incident seven people were killed in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek during clashes between JNA/Serbian and Croat forces on March 8 . |
| 19 | Portuguese Radio International reported on April 15 that the inquiry report was identical to the preliminary report issued in December 1991 , which concluded that 50 people were killed in the incident and that troops had reacted to the demonstration with excessive force [ see p. 38677 ] . |
| 20 | According to diplomatic sources up to 300 people were killed in the violence . |
| 21 | At least 33 people were killed in the Bahamas , Florida ( where the death toll was greatest ) and Louisiana , although the final figure was expected to be higher . |
| 22 | Casualties on the Afghan side were far greater more than a million people were killed in the country as a whole , with the government party and forces sustaining about 70,000 of these losses . |
| 23 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 24 | The demonstrations marked the tenth anniversary of an uprising when at least two hundred people were killed by the security forces . |
| 25 | A hundred thousand people were killed from the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — many of the casualties were children . |
| 26 | There was little election-related violence during the June polling to compare with that of May 20 , when over 100 people were killed throughout the country . |