Example sentences of "[num] people died [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed .
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 As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting .
4 The facts of the war are simple : about a dozen people died during the Serbo-Croat conflict in Croatia in 1990-91 .
5 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 .
6 More than ten thousand people died in the town .
7 In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria .
8 Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly .
9 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 .
10 In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks .
11 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 .
12 FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced .
13 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 .
14 Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy .
15 St Bartholomew 's hospital surgical manager Ian Johnson said two people died at the scene of the blast .
16 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 .
17 A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks .
18 Nearly three million people died in the Korean War .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 A total of 440 people died in the two aircraft bombings .
22 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 .
23 Seven people died in the attack on the Rising Sun at Greysteel .
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